[LAU] External USB 2 HD for real-time recording

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 17:39 +0100, Peder Hedlund wrote:
> Quoting Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> 
> 
> > "All WD external hard drives will spin down (enter into power saver
> > mode) after 10 minutes of drive inactivity. Once the drive is accessed
> > again, the drive will exit from the power saver mode and spin back up.
> 
> If it's designed to spin down it's probably also designed to be able  
> to handle that.
> An obvious workaround would be having a cron job doing a 'touch  
> TempFile' or something similar on the disk once every 5 minutes or so.

Thank you Peder, that's a good idea, if the spin downs should cause
issues.

Regards,
Ralf