[ale] SATA PCI card or external USB enclosures?

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> Do you have any issues with the drives spinning down?  It seems that's a
> frequent event for some of these enclosures.  I just want to leave the
> drive spinning at all times.
>

That's a "feature" of the drives not the enclosure. The "green" drives are
notoriously adept at taking naps to save power. Look at hdparm for
settings.
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