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.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> 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 <vor...@yahoo.com>: >> >> 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 >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
