Section 6. Using the Enhanced Drive Properties
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Choosing Spindown Timeout
Spindown timeout is the time the drive’s spindle motor (the motor that rotates the
disc) still spins after it has finished reading or writing. This is relevant to reading
performance of the drive, not writing.
While the drive is spinning, you get almost instantaneous access to the drive.
However, if you try to access data on a disc after the drive has spun down, the data
will not be read right away; instead, you will have to wait a few seconds while the
drive spins up the disc to an appropriate RPM before it can start to read the data.
Default spindown timeout for the drive is 2 minutes. You can use the Spindown
Timeout drop-down list to change this time for better performance in your particular
application. For example:
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If you use the drive frequently and want to save motor life, you can set the
spindown time lower.
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If you are doing infrequent searches on a disc (database searches) and do not
want a delayed response—that is, you do not want to wait for the drive to spin up
every time you request data—you can set the spindown timeout to infinite.
