From: David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:49:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201219184944.daa2c47bn2ocmuek@grusum.endjinn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efb3570a-db44-286f-70b1-b219a7010c46@youngman.org.uk>
Hello,
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote:
>On 19/12/2020 16:51, David Haller wrote:
>> Beware: I use a lot of disks and I tried running it with then 8 (or 9?
>> or 10? Lots!) HDDs with a 500W (or even 550W) PSU. System wouldn't
>> reliably boot up. Replaced with a 650W PSU and it's running since
>> (which is, those 10+ years now:) Currently I have a SSD and 7 HDDs
>> (and 2 DVD[1]);)
>
>Bear in mind I'm talking about a computer the size of a washing machines, and
>an 800MB drive the size of a tower case...
>
>Back in the old days, you could configure the system so the drive would wait
>a certain number of seconds after power-on before actually powering up.
>
>So you'd work out what power you had spare above normal operation to spin up
>your drives, and avoid overloading the system.
>
>That useful feature has probably been lost in the name of progress... :-)
Called "staggered spinup" (or something alike).
In servers, it's still there, but not in run-of-the-mill desktops like
mine... Sadly so in my case, I could and would have used that...
-dnh, the MoBo though is quite a fine piece with 8 SATA + 2 eSATA
ports onboard :) I'm gonna miss eSATA in newer HW :( Hot-plug
almost like USB but full SATA feature set and speed (e.g. SMART).
--
It takes a million monkeys at typewriters to write Shakespeare, but
only a dozen monkeys at computers to run Network Solutions.
-- Patrick Delahanty
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-19 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-19 13:02 [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data Dale
2020-12-19 13:47 ` bobwxc
2020-12-19 16:51 ` David Haller
2020-12-19 17:28 ` Dale
2020-12-19 18:37 ` antlists
2020-12-19 18:49 ` David Haller [this message]
2020-12-19 20:10 ` antlists
2020-12-19 21:31 ` David Haller
2020-12-19 23:21 ` Wols Lists
2020-12-19 17:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-19 17:32 ` Dale
2020-12-19 17:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-19 17:54 ` Dale
2020-12-19 21:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-20 1:02 ` Dale
2020-12-19 18:55 ` antlists
2020-12-19 19:19 ` Dale
2020-12-20 1:06 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2020-12-20 3:01 ` Dale
2020-12-20 14:21 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2020-12-20 22:37 ` Dale
2020-12-20 10:03 ` antlists
2020-12-20 13:20 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2020-12-20 13:39 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-21 0:33 ` antlists
2020-12-21 0:20 ` Dale
2020-12-21 2:52 ` William Kenworthy
2020-12-21 9:19 ` Dale
2020-12-21 11:26 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2020-12-25 9:41 ` Dale
2020-12-21 10:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2020-12-21 12:53 ` Dale
2020-12-22 0:12 ` antlists
2020-12-24 16:38 ` Dale
2020-12-24 20:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2020-12-25 9:15 ` Dale
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