On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:03:17 -0700 Adam Talbot <ajtalbot1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I need help from the Linux RAID pros. > > To make a very long story short; I have a 7 disk in a RAID 6 array. I > put the drives to sleep after 7 minutes of inactivity. It is well known that repeatedly spinning a drive down/up is absolutely the worst possible thing you can do to it, from a long term reliability standpoint. So my personal suggestion would be to reconsider if you really want this. The power consumption from 7 spinning drives with no access should be no higher than 60-70 watt; IMHO saving that amount, is not something that's worth risking your disks and data for. -- With respect, Roman
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