On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 22:06:33 +0100, alan_m wrote:

On 07/09/2016 19:51, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
On 07/09/16 16:55, Brian Gaff wrote:
Maybe its got some kind of power saving system that only runs the
drive when its needed?
Brian

THat's exactly the sort of update that happens.


"George, we are getting a lot of drive failures"
"Well buy better disk and put a better fan in it then" "Cant afford to
do that - cant you fix it in software?" "Well I can spin the drives
down when not in use I suppose".

A settable option with Toppies

Surely on most PVRs?
Some people will only use them for recording - others will want a rewind
of live TV requiring the disk to be spinning and recording continuously.

I don't know if ours is settable, but it powers off after a coiple of
hours if not used, so the disk spins down too. I might investigate
leaving it spinning.

(every other disk in the house is spinning 24/7, and there are at least
16 of them)



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