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#1 2011-10-04 06:59:33
- zenlord
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headless server: reduce hard drive spinning up
Hi,
I'm running a headless archlinux-box as a mediaserver, which means it is unused for the most part of the day.
Archlinux is installed on an SSD, the data is kept on a series of RAID-5-drives. I would like to keep the hard drives (in RAID-5) spun down, but I'm failing to do that.
Any advice how that can be done? I have setup laptop-mode and cpufreq (though I'm not an expert on those), but I hear the drives spinning up during idle time every 30 seconds and then spin down again...
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#2 2011-10-04 10:14:14
- cybertorture
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Re: headless server: reduce hard drive spinning up
Hello zenlord,
even tho this idea looks good, it wont work ( at least in my opinion ) spin up - spin down is bad enough for hard drive, but in raid and in that raid 5 is worst to have them spining up-down. This will end up in data loss :S .
O' rly ? Ya rly Oo
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