[GTALUG] Keep X from going to sleep

[Russell Reiter]

There is that factor as well. The hardest thing on any vehicle is that
first start in the morning. Little lubrication, not at optimum operating
temperature etc. I don't think anything in life is really either or, it's
more like if and when.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
> > I agree saving power is a reasonable thing. That's one reason I don't
> > recommend disabling DPMS completely. Spinning down the drives saves power
> > and also servs to extend the lifespan of the drive, if only marginally.
>
> Some of the drives I have had last the longest never spun down.  I had
> an 18GB quantum fireball that ran for 82000 power on hours before the
> bearings started sounded so bad you didn't want to be in the same building
> as the drive.
>
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