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- noun computing, astronomy A
reduction inspin speed (of a hard disk, pulsar etc)
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Examples
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Run a cache ramdisk on your system if you have large enough RAM which can speed up the system a lot and enables the harddrive to remain spindown for longer periods.
Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Run a cache ramdisk on your system if you have large enough RAM which can speed up the system a lot and enables the harddrive to remain spindown for longer periods.
Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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There is an (apocryphal) story of movers just hitting the circuit breaker (not the off switch that engaged the brakes), and after waiting the requisite 5 minutes for spindown, loaded the drive into a truck.
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AAH serial: 5LSGDZVR detachable: 0 can spindown: 1 rotational media: 1 ejectable: 0 media: compat: interface: ata if speed: (unknown)
LinuxQuestions.org 2010
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For example, the Totem media player now has an asynchronous parsing API; the GNOME Panel was restored to its original layout; support for laptops with multiple batteries was added to the GNOME Power Manager application; DeviceKit-disks received support for disk spindown; and many more!
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The contrast with failed full-spindown MAID (Massive Array of Idle Drives) vendor Copan is telling.
The Register Team Register 2010
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· GNOME Power Manager now has support for laptops with multiple batteries and has added disk spindown support for DeviceKit disks and much more.
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CAStor v4. 0 supports spindown with a so-called Darkive feature, that comes into action, inaction really, after a configurable period of inactivity for part of the archive.
Channel Register 2010
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Audio player loads memory or vdisk with many files so the hard disk can spindown while playing. wxWidget on OS9/X win32 unixX11/GTK.
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ManDVD - DVD authoring software to create Home Video DVDs in openSUSE Spindown - Utility to spindown your Disk when not in use in openSUSE
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