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Subject: Re: Why'd you go with Alpine Linux?
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:01:40 +0200
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On Sat, 2026-04-04 at 11:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I recently wanted to reorder new enclosures for external
> hard drives, but my favorites are no longer available, and every
> manufacturer I contacted confirmed that they no longer make drives
> that spin continuously, nowadays they all force standby mode.

This should read that the controllers of the USB to SATA controllers of
those enclosures force stand by. That I mentioned drives was an
accident. The drives aren't the culprits.