From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11F021382C5 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE87AE0978; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:17:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from km35626.keymachine.de (text-idiomas.com [87.118.86.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5408CE092A for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by km35626.keymachine.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02A711352E4 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:17:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at km35626.keymachine.de. Received: from km35626.keymachine.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (km35626.keymachine.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IlVfN54vWolf for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:17:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from grusum.endjinn.de (13-173-142-46.pool.kielnet.net [46.142.173.13]) by km35626.keymachine.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 763A711351C0 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:17:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by grusum.endjinn.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id DDC3E1703AA; Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:49:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:49:44 +0100 From: David Haller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data. Message-ID: <20201219184944.daa2c47bn2ocmuek@grusum.endjinn.de> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20201219165152.sspbljwbia4vdp4j@grusum.endjinn.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Nah, not today! X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) X-Archives-Salt: 34833ddc-9a47-4e58-8b5f-eb10978378ab X-Archives-Hash: 647715dfd9fd6485dc251bbf4a09af11 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