From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Adam Talbot <ajtalbot1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sleepy drives and MD RAID 6
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:29:01 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140812092901.60f007e6@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH_2GheOOaJRp7YimEsorFzGUJyObG2QsOpu87CYvwLPwz-V+A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:03:17 -0700
Adam Talbot <ajtalbot1@gmail.com> 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.
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With respect,
Roman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-12 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 1:03 Sleepy drives and MD RAID 6 Adam Talbot
2014-08-12 1:21 ` Larkin Lowrey
2014-08-12 1:31 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-12 5:55 ` Can Jeuleers
2014-08-12 9:46 ` Wilson, Jonathan
2014-08-12 15:26 ` Adam Talbot
[not found] ` <CAH_2GhfBKiJAT=+zCFH0_xkmyTfWFi=c-F+z8rwL1x++UwU+KA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-08-13 16:07 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-14 16:50 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-14 17:00 ` Larkin Lowrey
2014-08-14 17:37 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-14 18:05 ` Larkin Lowrey
2014-08-18 15:41 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-18 16:16 ` Larkin Lowrey
[not found] ` <CAH_2GhcwHszr75bbDq2aWRnnF8-ttpGERKE=CKt=Nri3ue9row@mail.gmail.com>
2014-08-28 21:04 ` Adam Talbot
2014-08-12 3:29 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2014-08-14 18:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2014-08-14 19:33 ` Adam Talbot
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