"green" drives and hdparm

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Matt Price wrote:

> anyone know much about this?  I will use old drives for the os(es) but
> hopefully a huge new drive for video.  i'd really like to have it

The OS is unlikely to take up more than a few GB and there will be 
relatively little OS related disk activity so I recommend just putting the 
OS and the media data on the same drive[1].  Running an extra disk just 
for the OS would be a waste of energy.

[1] or set of drives if using RAID.

Cheers,

Rob

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