I have an external usb storage device that will auto sleep after sometime of inactive, which is fine to me to preserve the device life span.
When i run dolphin to browse any local folder location (eg: /home/Desktop/) , dolphin will have a few seconds of unresponsiveness until the external usb storage device spin up.
Does it have to be this way ? Is there way to make dolphin don’t freeze (waiting for the usb to spin up) ? i am not gonna open the folder in the usb storage anyway, why it must waste my time waiting for the sleepy hdd ?
Is there way to set up that dolphin don’t wait for the usb hdd when i click on it ? This kind of waiting is really inefficient at this age.
Is it good to let it keep spinning ? I am accessing the usb hdd on and off… so i won’t be unmount it anytime.
Is there way to make dolphin so that it does not caught on external devices when user is not accessing it ?
I mean, dolphin can always waiting for the usb drive to respond in the background instead of hang the whole ui for it.
It depends on the type of drive. But in general, I would say that it’s probably better to keep it spinning than to let it spin down and up all the time. The spindle motor will wear far less from maintaining a constant speed than from having to spin up from zero all the time.
No.
It isn’t Dolphin that does that. I/O is a prioritized process in the kernel, and it is the kernel that handles the I/O. Dolphin only shows you what the kernel shows it in turn.
