Re: WD doesn`t use disks with Linux - was Re: Re:Western DigitalGreenPower drives and Linux

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2008-05-14 15:20, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
>It's not just the positioning logic that gets powered off. The
>discs are spun down, which saves a lot of power.

And drives latencies into the skies.
Not to mention that the permanent spinups and downs also affect life.
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