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Disk Spin Down power management settings
On the page "Just released – RAIDiator 5.3.5 (ARM)" (http://www.readynas.com/?p=6412) from May 24 2012, you will find this in the release notes: The following are changes since RAIDiator 5.3.4: Ne...
Part of the question here is what do you mean by "better".
PapaBear wrote: Professionals have been arguing for decades whether it is better to leave the computer on and the drives spinning 24/7...
Leaving the drives spinning is the only option for servers that need to provide fast response 24x7. Since this is the case in almost all datacenters, the effects of spin down really haven't been researched much.
I think it is pretty obvious that you don't want to spin down/up the drives too frequently. Other than that, it is pretty much a matter of personal preference.
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