[huskerlug] Re: Installing Knoppix to hard-drive

Oh, I forgot...
The typical Mean Time Between Failure (mtbf) is 50,000 hrs of continuous
use, which is about five years.
If your HD spins down to "save" hours then the life of it may be more
than five years.
But, if your drive spins down and something causes it to spin up again
without requesting access to a file or directory, then the HD life may
be less than five years because spinning the drive up is the hardest
work the circuitry does.


GreyGeek wrote:
> Check "top" and see how often "hald-addon-stor" fires in comparison to
> your drive light.
>
> Jim Worrest wrote:
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>>      Well, I've done this twice now, and it was basically ok, in fact I did 
>> this
>> just lately over favor of the later version 5.1.1. I never noticed it much 
>> when
>> I did it the first time, but it does it on that computer also, but on my last
>> computer it is extremely noticable.  It apparently accesses my hard drive 
>> once a
>> second.  Having my hard drive light blink once a second, makes me nervous.  
>> Why
>> is my Knoppix/Debian doing this?  Is there a way to stop this, short of 
>> putting
>> on another distro, that is?  How hard is it on the hard-drive? ---Jim
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