HD recommendations?

[Steve Flynn]

On 14 February 2012 16:32, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:53:43 -0600
> CJ Tres wrote:

> Make sure that what you end up with hasn't got any unconfigurable power
> saving features. I bought a Samsung Story 2TB which seems to power down
> after about 5 seconds, and it takes about 10 seconds to power up again -
> very irritating. Unusable as a primary drive. There doesn't seem to be a
> way of changing the behaviour.

You're correct - there is no way to adjust the sleep timeout. I'd just
touch a file on whatever filesystem you have on it every few minutes
to keep the thing awake.

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Steve

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