[ale] SATA PCI card or external USB enclosures?

[Matt Hessel]

Actually I have a Seagate barracuda 2tb that has firmware set under APM to
spin down after 120 secs of inactivity.  It is extremely irritating, and
bad for the drive.

In windows I had to find an app that would autostart, and tweak the drive
setting to disable APM.  Under Linux, hdparm does it much easier.
On Mar 4, 2013 4:54 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <charriglists at bellsouth.net>
wrote:

> On 3/4/2013 4:10 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>
>> On 3/4/2013 12:19, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/4/2013 3:04 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't have any experience with PCI cards for this.  For enclosures, I
>>>> like the Vantec brand.  Quality seems to be good.  Some of them have
>>>> fans for cooling.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>> On 3/3/2013 2:47 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have a suggestion for a good but not too expensive SATA PCI
>>>>> (not express) card and/or external USB-SATA enclosure?  The enclosure
>>>>> for my backup drive just died (the drive seems fine...I hope).  I just
>>>>> need to pop it into a new box or just slip another card into the case
>>>>> (mobo has only IDE, no SATA).
>>>>>
>>>> +1 for Vantec
>>> I have several, all several years old, none have failed to date.
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>>
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>>  No intrinsic drive spin downs, that's well above the USB interface.  I
> tend to use standard desktop drives, not the green ones that tend to spin
> down quickly.  Any spin down is at the OS level.
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