Are you implying that you'd rather use 6 drives per shelf rather than 7?
No -- I'm just assuming that the 7th disk (the hot spare) is drawing little or no power. Perhaps this is a bad assumption.
Is startup power the power required to "spin up" the disks? In that case, isn't that power only delivered once at boot time?
In addition to this, if I remember correctly, the filer spins up disks sequentially, so there shouldn't be more than one disk drawing startup power at any one time.
That's good to note.
Jason Priebe WRAL OnLine http://www.wral-tv.com/
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Priebe, Jason wrote:
Are you implying that you'd rather use 6 drives per shelf rather than 7?
No -- I'm just assuming that the 7th disk (the hot spare) is drawing little or no power. Perhaps this is a bad assumption.
As far as spin-up this IS incorrect. All the disks are spun up to see which volume they belong to, etc. This is necessary because there is no requirement (at least in the later versions of the OS) to the ordering of disks.
Tom
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