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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: Mikey-San on Apr 25, '06 08:24:14AM

This seems specious and woefully unsubstantiated. Now people are going to turn off spin-down potentially erroneously.

Why was this posted without some real data on the matter?



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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: kirkmc on Apr 25, '06 08:35:42AM

Well, if a drive is spun down, and Spotlight (or anything else) accesses it, the drive will take a few seconds to spin up. What is unsubstantiated about that?

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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: Mikey-San on Apr 25, '06 08:55:04AM

Because it doesn't seem to make sense that this should magically speed up /indexing./



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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: kirkmc on Apr 25, '06 11:53:30AM

As I pointed out in my comments on the hint, I don't see how this will speed up indexing. If anyone has a theory... :-)

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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: Mikey-San on Apr 25, '06 12:27:41PM

My point is that the hint suggests that it does, when all you really know is that some guy experienced weird system behaviour and took a leap.

It just comes off as more of an unsubstantiated troubleshooting post than an actual hint, that's all.



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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: pub3abn on Apr 25, '06 09:06:11AM

I agree with Mikey re: the indexing part. But otherwise the original hint makes a good point. The same issue also affects other applications, such as LaunchBar.



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10.4: Resolve Spotlight pause on hard disk sleep
Authored by: danceswithtrees on Apr 25, '06 11:26:04AM

It would be intertesting to see if the faster indexing persisted even after turning drive sleep back on. Perhaps the two observations were true, true but unrelated.



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