[geeks] SATA Drives and Delay Start

[Alois Hammer]

IIRC, quality RAID controllers (3Ware, for instance) can perform this
feat.  Ask a salescritter to be sure.  If you wanted a cheap and easy
way, like setting a jumper?  Sorry.

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:12:16 -0500, "Sridhar Ayengar"
<ploopster at gmail.com> said:
> 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.
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar
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