2013/10/7 Dotan Cohen <[email protected]>: > Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed > for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin > them down. Well that depends on the firmware/OS and the optimizations you add... In prebuilt stuff I would also expect it, in self built stuff it depends 100% on you. > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: >> There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... >> Intel Atom boards >> AMD E-series >> ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) >> So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area >> of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you >> would get that low a peak usage with more then 2 disks since the avg. >> usage of a disk is about 10W, though that may have improved by now...) >> >> And yes, RAID 6, 1, 10 or RAIDZ should be what you look at.... >> >> Regards, >> Eliyahu - אליהו >> >> >> 2013/10/7 vordoo <[email protected]>: >>> >>> DO NOT USE RAID 5, Go for 1, 6, or 10 : >>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 >>> >>>> use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark all your >>>> files private if you want)... >>> Marked or not, if you flickr privet it will not be anymore. Which may be OK >>> as long as you know. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com
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