hard disk power down

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:56 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> 
> If in reality you expected the drive to last 5 years and it was in use
> half that time, spreading the budget of 300,000 starts and stops over
> that period looks like you can afford to do something like 6 an
> hour...
> vs one an hour for the 3.5" drive...

Cheers for doing that - that's useful to know. David, this makes some of
the discussion with DannyK moot - what do you think about hdd powerdown
from the desktop?

Richard.