From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piergiorgio Sartor Subject: Re: WD "RED" drives - are they any good for mdadm? Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 13:48:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20130209124838.GA5415@lazy.lzy> References: <50CF2112.1090406@gmail.com> <5115727E.9050601@tmr.com> <20130209082059.GA2372@lazy.lzy> <5116434A.6060300@fnarfbargle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5116434A.6060300@fnarfbargle.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Campbell Cc: Piergiorgio Sartor , Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 08:38:34PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote: > On 09/02/13 16:20, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > > >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. > > All my WD drives (Greens and Blacks) do out of the box, so I'd > assume the RED does too. In fact, I think the last drive I tried > that did not was an old 250GB Maxtor. Everything else seems to. Maybe, but some do by software, some by jumper and some others by SATA pin. Or combinations of that. So, I was curious, since one WDC I've can be configure by jumper (and software) and it has the "instructions" on the HDD itself. bye, -- piergiorgio