{"id":2157,"date":"2011-07-04T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2011-07-04T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:10:04","slug":"spin-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Spin-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I once bought a CD changer: a standard form factor internal CD-ROM drive that could &#8220;swallow&#8221; four CDs at a time, which then all appeared under different drive letters.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most infuriating things about Windows (NT 4.0 at the time) was that every once in a while, when a program enumerated all drives, it caused the drive to needlessly cycle through the four CDs: clickety-click, zoom, zoom, clickety-click, zoom, zoom, clickety-click, zoom, zoom, clickety-click, zoom, zoom, taking its sweet time.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer use that CD changer, but I do have several external hard drives permanently hooked up to my computer. They are Western Digital MyBook drives, which spin down after some minutes of inactivity. And&#8230; you guessed it, every once in a while, say when I am running an installer, stupid Windows spins them all up, sequentially of course, to consume as much time as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Microsoft will ever acknowledge this as an issue and fix it. Based on past experience, I am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2157' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I once bought a CD changer: a standard form factor internal CD-ROM drive that could &#8220;swallow&#8221; four CDs at a time, which then all appeared under different drive letters. One of the most infuriating things about Windows (NT 4.0 at the time) was that every once in a while, when a program <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2157' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}