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roveer1
Feb 22, 2012Guide
Drive Spin-Down on a Pro 6. Can it really work?
I'm setting up my pro 6 and am considering enabling drive spin-down. The thought of all those drives spinning all the time seems a little wasteful. There will likely be large periods of time where t...
TeknoJnky
Feb 23, 2012Hero
AMRivlin wrote: $5 a month is hardly a major expense considering the expense of the device.
agreed. but of course other areas of the world have more expensive energy
I don't know if its possible, but personally I am more paranoid of drives spinning up out of sync (or failing to wake up at all) and causing the array to rebuild or worse lose data.
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