[Asterisk-Users] Qs about FXO/FXS cards

[Richard Scobie]

Steven Critchfield wrote:

> Okay, link this to my rambling above and you would see that by thrashing
> the disk, you are actually keeping the spindle spooled up and not
> measuring the spool up draw. My guess is a spooled down machine getting
> a random incoming call that then must generate ring and spool up the
> HD(s) to start writing logs at the same time on a questionable PSU.   

??!  Who set's up servers with hard drives that are spun down?

Powered down hard disks are for laptops and specialised setups where 
power consumption is critical. These are probably not where people 
install serious asterisk servers.

Regards,

Richard