[xubuntu-users] Hard drives and backup - Was: Am I the only one who still uses floppies?

[Eric Christopherson]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:27:34 -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >Is this sort of cycling a danger to internal drives too (ones that
> >don't get actively used by the OS, I mean)? I wonder if my internal
> >backup drive might be at risk.
> 
> No it isn't a risk as long as you didn't set up the drives to
> automatically spin down and sleep when they were not used for a while.
> 
> The issue with gvfs and similar software is that it wakes up sleeping
> drives immediately after a drive spin down.

Does this happen if the drive isn't mounted?

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        Eric Christopherson