Eden awaiting power...
I have now fitted the eden to my server box. The box is a large kids toybox from Homebase made of cheap pine. I used to use an expensive camphor wood box, but a cheap pine one seemed better for drilling holes in :).
Now I have the old P4 facing off the Eden across a frame of 12 Harddrives. The P4 is working again, but the eden is awaiting a power supply with an SATA power adaptor. Unfortunately I do not have one that is appropriate. Quiet PC can supply one with a fan that only spins if needed, and I also bought a silent enclosure for the boot drive, since that will be constantly spinning. It arrives tomorrow, and then the new box will be complete.
The box is now rather full. It was getting bad before, but now it is approaching bursting point. The frame is a new addition as a last ditch attempt to get more into it, before moving on to "bigger premises".
Another thing I noticed was when the drives claim to be asleep, most seem to be warm to the touch. My HardwareMon says Windows thinks their gone, but they still are kicking out heat. The current install does not seem to support standby, so I will have to wait for the eden to seem if they get cooler when put into deep sleep.
I am also going to buy some flame retardant spray I think. Nothing gets too hot, but it is rather combustable!
Now I have the old P4 facing off the Eden across a frame of 12 Harddrives. The P4 is working again, but the eden is awaiting a power supply with an SATA power adaptor. Unfortunately I do not have one that is appropriate. Quiet PC can supply one with a fan that only spins if needed, and I also bought a silent enclosure for the boot drive, since that will be constantly spinning. It arrives tomorrow, and then the new box will be complete.
The box is now rather full. It was getting bad before, but now it is approaching bursting point. The frame is a new addition as a last ditch attempt to get more into it, before moving on to "bigger premises".
Another thing I noticed was when the drives claim to be asleep, most seem to be warm to the touch. My HardwareMon says Windows thinks their gone, but they still are kicking out heat. The current install does not seem to support standby, so I will have to wait for the eden to seem if they get cooler when put into deep sleep.
I am also going to buy some flame retardant spray I think. Nothing gets too hot, but it is rather combustable!
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On our linux fileserver we run things like...
/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/hdl
... which tells it to send the drive to sleep. You can hear it power down, but I haven't felt the temperature of them. You can feel the gyroscopic forces if you try to move a spinning drive, which would be fun if it wasn't so dodgy :)
For what it's worth, hdparm with a capital -Y means you have to reboot the machine if you want to see the disk again. That can be less than fun.