[geeks] SATA Drives and Delay Start

[Aaron Finley]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Is there any way to get SATA drives to stagger their spin-up?  I'm in 
> the process of putting together a machine that will have loads of SATA 
> drives in them, but I can't seem to figure that out.  I'd rather not 
> load up my power supply by having all of the drives spin up at the same 
> time.

Thermistors on the power supply lines?

-- Aaron