Re: Will RAID have issues with disks that spin down?

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On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.  I know that several hardware RAID solutions have issues with disks that
> spin down when idle; the time to spin back up -- usually on the order of
> five seconds -- causes unhappy timeouts, etc.  I was wondering if that would
> be an issue with RAID a-la btrfs?

I run btrfs on my home server with the disks set to spin down when
idle. One of them (a Samsung 1TB) takes a whopping 10 seconds to spin
up, but btrfs has no problem with that whatsoever.

Regards,

Bart
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