On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 09:10:11AM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Drew wrote: > > >I personally have used a 4 pack of these hung off a LSI 9204 raid > >controller and performance is okay but not spectacular. That'd be > >because of the drives supposedly vary from 5400 to 7200 rpm depending > > Nah, the variable spin speed was an misinterpretation of some blogs > and article writers from reading the WD material. > > It's fixed spin speed, but it might vary within the same series with > different capacities. Most of the time it's 5400-5900 for this type > of drive. Does anybody know if the REDs support Staggered Spin Up? I could not find any info on that on WDC web site. In the past, some WDC HDDs supported SSU by software and/or by jumper, but on these it seems unknown. Thanks, bye, -- piergiorgio -- 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
