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Hot Spare status
All, I have always wondered what the hot spare is doing while waiting to be put into action. Is it powered up and eating power or is it powered down until needed. Hopefully the latter is true...
I am actually talking about the hot spare feature that is available only in Flex-raid mode and not in X-raid mode. This spare (hot spare)
drive occupies a slot in your NAS and sits un-utilized until one of the live drives fails.
I want to know if this spare drive is in some kind of sleep mode or is it powered up and spinning like the live data drives.
If it is spinning like a live utilized drive, then it will receive some wear and tear just like the all of the other drives in the array.
If a Jedi would like to chime in, it would be greatly appreciated because I have asked this question about a year ago without anyone
on this forum providing an answer.
Thanks,
Stretchjr
drive occupies a slot in your NAS and sits un-utilized until one of the live drives fails.
I want to know if this spare drive is in some kind of sleep mode or is it powered up and spinning like the live data drives.
If it is spinning like a live utilized drive, then it will receive some wear and tear just like the all of the other drives in the array.
If a Jedi would like to chime in, it would be greatly appreciated because I have asked this question about a year ago without anyone
on this forum providing an answer.
Thanks,
Stretchjr
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