[mythtv-users] Spinning down drives in a RAID 1

[Owen B. Mehegan]

I have Myth running on a Debian system with one massive bootable RAID  
1 filesystem for everything. I'm using two 700G SATA drives, and they  
run quite hot. I don't actually record live TV from this system, it's  
just an MP3 and AVI video player which sits idle for most of the day.  
It seems like if I were to spin down the drives when they're idle, I  
could save power and prolong their life at the same time.

I've read this page on the MythTV wiki: http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Spindown_drives 
   It doesn't mention RAID though. Are there any pitfalls to trying to  
implement this on my RAID 1 system, or can I just treat it like a pair  
of disks and go for it?