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Is it safe to put harddisks of a md-software-raid to standby?
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Mar 15, 20268346 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a home-fileserver with 6 desktop harddisks in a md-raid. The server isn't accessed a lot, so I think it would be good for the harddrives to go in standby-mode after some idle time (e.g. with the hdparm -S or hd-idle command). Is this safe when using mdadm or could this cause errors/degraded …
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I should think so. I have been using it my backup machine with RAID-1 for about a year. Got the tips from this page. It is also mentioned on the Gentoo wiki and [H]ardforum threads. Also, the man page for hdparm marks the similar power off mode (-s …
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