Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?

Marc Perkel
2005-11-21T15:49:31Z

Mark Lord wrote:

> Yes, the hdparm -y, -Y, and -S flags all work with the passthru
> feature set,
> which is included in the 2.6.15-rc* kernels.
>
> Typical power consumption figures, from WDC SataII drives:
>
> Idle: 430mA@12VDC + 730mA@5VDC (about 8.75 watts)
> Standby: 20mA@12VDC + 270mA@5VDC (about 1.60 watts)
> Sleep: 20mA@12VDC + 250mA@5VDC (about 1.50 watts)
>
> Those are from the WDC datasheets.
>
> Cheers

Here's maxotor specs

Power
Spinup (avg, watts) 28.7
Seek (avg, watts) 12.3
Idle (avg, watts) 7.0
Standby (avg, watts) 2.1

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