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 :-) I'd be concerned about premature disk failure from cycling the drives up and down, which could end up being more expensive than your power bill. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
