Hi, I am looking for an S3 sleep friendly high performance RAID controller to use in my workstations with external storage.
The basic problem I have with all the controllers I tested is that they do not spin down the drives when the system enters S3 sleep, and worse when the system shuts down.
This means that when my workstation goes to sleep or powers down, the drives in the external enclosures keep on spinning, keep on generating noise and heat, and keep on using electricity.
The only controller that worked as expected was the cheapest and slowest, a motherboard integrated Intel ICH10R chipset, and this does correctly spindown the drives.
On the higher end cards I tested Adaptec 5445, 3Ware 9690SA-4I, and Areca ARC-1680LP.
(I also have a LSI MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP on order)
The Adaptec not only did not spin down the drives, it also sends an alert every time it wakes up that the battery failed, which is not true since the next log entry says is battery is working fine.
Does anybody have any advice on how to configure these cards to make them spin down the drives before sleeping or powering off?
Or can anybody recommend a different card that does play nice with S3?
Thanks
P.
The basic problem I have with all the controllers I tested is that they do not spin down the drives when the system enters S3 sleep, and worse when the system shuts down.
This means that when my workstation goes to sleep or powers down, the drives in the external enclosures keep on spinning, keep on generating noise and heat, and keep on using electricity.
The only controller that worked as expected was the cheapest and slowest, a motherboard integrated Intel ICH10R chipset, and this does correctly spindown the drives.
On the higher end cards I tested Adaptec 5445, 3Ware 9690SA-4I, and Areca ARC-1680LP.
(I also have a LSI MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP on order)
The Adaptec not only did not spin down the drives, it also sends an alert every time it wakes up that the battery failed, which is not true since the next log entry says is battery is working fine.
Does anybody have any advice on how to configure these cards to make them spin down the drives before sleeping or powering off?
Or can anybody recommend a different card that does play nice with S3?
Thanks
P.