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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...
All,
I am only at just below 40% utilization of my drives, so I am willing to lose one of my slots for a hot spare.
I also would rather that my failed drive get replaced by the hot spare as soon as possible to limit the time that
I am running without redundancy.
So I am still interested in finding out if the hot spare is spinning when the others are active.
I would prefer that the hot spare stay in sleep mode thus conserving electricity and wear and tear on the hot spare drive.
Thanks,
Stretchjr
I am only at just below 40% utilization of my drives, so I am willing to lose one of my slots for a hot spare.
I also would rather that my failed drive get replaced by the hot spare as soon as possible to limit the time that
I am running without redundancy.
So I am still interested in finding out if the hot spare is spinning when the others are active.
I would prefer that the hot spare stay in sleep mode thus conserving electricity and wear and tear on the hot spare drive.
Thanks,
Stretchjr
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