Re: Power Supply for multiple disks?

[Sven Kirmess]

 Thursday, April 06, 2000, 6:36:39 PM, David wrote:

>>What about "IDE power down when idle"? Can this blow up the power
>>supply or crash the system when turning on 4 disks simultaneous?
> You don't want to use "power down when idle" on drives in a RAID...

Why not? I think about power down after e.g. 30' idle time. Not after
a few seconds... What's the Problem with RAID? Does it mark all disks
as bad if they don't come up fast enough?

 Sven