I have a home server with a Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB disk in it. Recently, I’ve come across this post explaining that this drive’s IntelliPark parks the head after only 8 seconds of being idle. Linux by default caches disk access for 30 seconds on an idle system, leading to up to 120 load/unload cycles per hour!
Long-term Memory
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