On Monday, February 20, 2006, at 04:00 PM, de Runtz, Lars wrote:
You want the drive to spin up immediately after POR (powering the
system up)
I agree. I have never used the delay start DS or remote start RS, and
never had a problem. I think those settings are for if you have a
very specific reason to do so.
These settings are mostly used in servers that can have multiple (8 is
not uncommon) HDs in them. Since HDs draw the highest amount of current
upon spin/start up, most servers' power supplies last longer when the
hard disks are spun up sequentially and get up to cruising speed before
the next one starts up.
The start up delay is in the drives themselves, I have a compaq
proliant 1600 with 4 sca scsi HDs and the server waits for all of them
to spin up before it even starts looking for an operating system to
boot from. Each drive waits 10 seconds times it's scsi ID before it
starts to spin up.
Len
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