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

Peder Hedlund peder at musikhuset.org
Sat Mar 9 17:38:29 UTC 2013


Quoting Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net>:

> ClamAV 0.97.5
>
>
> On Sat, March 9, 2013 8:39 am, 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.
>
> Would that actually touch the disk or just the copy of the temp file in
> the ram buffers? You are right though that the disk may have it's own
> buffer to give time for the disk to spin. It depends if the manufacture
> felt the spin up time was an issue. It used to be that a windows system
> would stop doing anything else while printing and nobody thought anything
> of it. (I haven't had to use windows for some time so I don't know if this
> is still the case) Also they may expect the system's lazy writing to make
> up for it.
>
> --
> Len Ovens
> www.OvenWerks.net
>




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