[vdr] Re: 18 Minutes - what does that tell?

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:59:15 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger
<Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:

> So the first recording that starts would stop the noflushd, and the CRON
> job would finally start it again.

I don't think that it is a very good idea to stop and start disks so
often. Maxtor specifies about 50000 start/stop cycles for its hard
disks. If the disk starts and stops 100 times a day because of some
events which do a disk access, then the live time is not very long. I
would really recommend to let them run 24/7 or watch the start/stop rate
very carefully.

Emil