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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 have no definitive answer either, but my guess would be the opposite of yours. The slot is configured to hold a hot spare, there really is no need for the OS to continuously "keep track of it". There could of course be a periodic spin-up to check the SMART stats, but it seems to me that keeping a hot spare spun up 24x7 would be a bad idea.
PapaBear wrote: While I have no definitive answer, I would think not. If the drive were idle and not spinning, the OS could not keep track of it. I would think that it is all or nothing, either all spun down or all spun up...
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