Thanks for your tip about noflushd, I will look into it and report back what I find. My first worry though is that this method is not power-safe, right? It becomes absolutely crucial to do a safe shutdown or else data will be lost. Cron was the first thing I took care of, it only runs once a day now...

Hi! I hope the topic grabbed your attention, because my question might sound weird to most people but should make sense on this forum. The issue is this: I am making a Linux based HTPC and I want the harddrive to spin down when it is not being used, so I use hdparm to set the spindown-time. But some...

Hi!
Anybody have any experience with ordering from these?
MemoryMedia
Reason I am asking is that they have two different prices on the disk, and one is $20 less than the other (and everybody else). Just wondered what the catch was...

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