[geeks] SATA Drives and Delay Start

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 14:44:30 CST 2008


Aaron Finley wrote:
> 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?

Bleh!  Ugh!  Ach!!

Peace...  Sridhar



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