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

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 04:00:52 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Owen B. Mehegan <owen at nerdnetworks.org> wrote:
> 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?


I didnt try very hard but i was unable to spindown my RAID 1 drives.
I was able to on my storage drives that are just mounted as 1 disk.

Mitchell



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Mitchell


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