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System clock and spindown on NV+
Past February I enabled disk spindown on my NV+ (4.1.13, with 4 disks). This works nicely, but now I noticed that since then the system clock is very inaccurate. The system runs ntpdate every 4 hours,...
Turning off spindown is probably the practical solution.
The impact on disk life is a bit hard to assess, as there clearly is more stress on bearings when the drives are spun up. Spinning up 16 times a day might have been too much anyway.
AFAIK, spindown wouldn't help with bad sectors, though I don't really understand the mechanisms that create bad sectors very well. Physical damage is often cited as the cause, but I haven't seen any data on whether spindown reduces the risk of that damage or if it puts the drive more at risk.
The impact on disk life is a bit hard to assess, as there clearly is more stress on bearings when the drives are spun up. Spinning up 16 times a day might have been too much anyway.
AFAIK, spindown wouldn't help with bad sectors, though I don't really understand the mechanisms that create bad sectors very well. Physical damage is often cited as the cause, but I haven't seen any data on whether spindown reduces the risk of that damage or if it puts the drive more at risk.
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