Re: power saving..

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, mjstumpf wrote:

I have a relatively large (11 drive) server that operates 24/7.

It really doesn't need to, though.  Use is sporadic at best; the purpose
is mostly archiving.

So what I'm wondering, is do we have auto-spin-down, power save features
available & STABLE?  This thing sucks down a lot of power, giving me a
bunch of heat in return :-)

Sorry for a late reply, but I've been on holiday...

I asked something like this a while back and got a positive reply. I've
been using "noflushd" on a small server/firewall for some time with good
results.  It's only a 2-disk RADI-1 system and what I've found is that one
drive is spun-down nearly all of the time, and the other is spun down most
of the time. It onl seems to spin up one disk when it need to read
something thats not in memory. Spin-up time is about 8 seconds (these are
old drives)  and it works very well and runs very cool and mostly quiet.

Gordon
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, mjstumpf wrote:

I have a relatively large (11 drive) server that operates 24/7.

It really doesn't need to, though.  Use is sporadic at best; the purpose
is mostly archiving.

So what I'm wondering, is do we have auto-spin-down, power save features
available & STABLE?  This thing sucks down a lot of power, giving me a
bunch of heat in return :-)

Sorry for a late reply, but I've been on holiday...

I asked something like this a while back and got a positive reply. I've
been using "noflushd" on a small server/firewall for some time with good
results.  It's only a 2-disk RADI-1 system and what I've found is that one
drive is spun-down nearly all of the time, and the other is spun down most
of the time. It onl seems to spin up one disk when it need to read
something thats not in memory. Spin-up time is about 8 seconds (these are
old drives)  and it works very well and runs very cool and mostly quiet.

Gordon