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I'm running a ZFS NAS with mirrored 2 HDD vdevs. I've set the HDDs to spindown after 20mins using hdparm -S and this works fine under zfs. The drives (Toshiba N
by PBondurant 3y ago
I'm running a ZFS NAS with mirrored 2 HDD vdevs. I've set the HDDs to spindown after 20mins using hdparm -S and this works fine under zfs. The drives (Toshiba N300s) take ~15s to spin up when something accesses them, and ime zfs has always handled this gracefully.
This vdev only contains data; it's not running the OS / root.