Also look at the new WD 10TB Red's if you want very low use archive storage. Because they spin at 5400, they only use 2.8W at idle. > -----Original Message----- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Jack > Sent: 06 November 2017 22:31 > To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Blog post: storage server power consumption > > Online does that on C14 (https://www.online.net/en/c14) > > IIRC, 52 spining disks per RU, with only 2 disks usable at a time There is some > custom hardware, though, and it is really design for cold storage (as an IO > must wait for an idle slot, power-on the device, do the IO, power-off the > device and release the slot) They use 1GB as a block size > > I do not think this will work anyhow with Ceph > > On 06/11/2017 23:12, Simon Leinen wrote: > > The last paragraph contains a challenge to developers: Can we save > > more power in "cold storage" applications by turning off idle disks? > > Crazy idea, or did anyone already try this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com