On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 03:29:38PM -0400, Stephen Gregory wrote: > My tests support those numbers. It has made me rethink the number of > drives I have running. Have them spin down after 20 minutes idle: hdparm -S 240 /dev/hdb hdparm -S 240 /dev/hdc ... And maybe spin 'em down manually: hdparm -y /dev/hdb hdparm -y /dev/hdc ... -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Open Source / Linux) via: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/