Well if that's the case, then why not just enable Wake-up On LAN and keep one machine running to be able to power-on those that are off? When you're not using the machine, power it off. You could keep it running on one certain day where you schedule your smartd's tests. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM, jahammonds prost<gmitch64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In my case, if they are not used for 30mins; they wont be used for several hours. > > This is usually the situation I am in as well, certainly my media server... It usually get used for 3 or 4 hours, then nothing much till the next day. > > > Graham -- Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html