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Cake day: January 6th, 2026

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  • Good question, as it’s not really obvious from the post. There’s simple stuff such as energy savings, preventing unneeded file indexes, preventing corruption, etc. The biggest reason is mostly situational to me, as I’ve taken over a bunch of drives from friends who renewed their own, which have been running in their respective NAS setups. The drives are definitely not new but have a reasonable remaining life span. I kinda realized that I don’t need the media files to be available at all times, so to squeeze the most out of the drives, I wanted to try this strategy.

    I haven’t yet tried adjusting spin-down options as it’s more predictable when I “manually” spin the drive up and down. I’m afraid the random seeks will still spin up the drives several times a day and hurt them over time.





















  • Mopplikus@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.org•ich😥iel
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    6 months ago

    Das mit dem “macht nichts damit” ist ja noch eins. Bei uns gabs dann hier und da Mal ein Mail vom Professor ca. 1 Stunde vor Abgabe: “Joa, es gab ein paar Studenten die danach gefragt haben also wird die Totlinie um eine Woche verlängert. Schönes Wochenende”

    Wenn man dann schon eine ganze Nacht dran gesessen hat nur um das in der letzten Minute an den Kopf geworfen zu bekommen denkt man dann schon an die Schlafstunden die man hätte behalten können. Tja.