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I was thinking of using hdparm to spin down the drives but I will have a look to see if there is power management where if the disks are not accessed for a certain time the server goes into standby and it is woken up again when the hard drives are accessed.

Hi, I currently have a Microserver setup with a 250GB system drive and RAIDz with 3 x 1TB. What I would like to do is spindown the hard disks after a certain time is this possible using the ZFS filesystem?

I just tried using the full device IDs and created a RAIDz array and it worked! Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info, I will give this a go.

The hard drives are being detected so I presume the backplane is OK or is this not the case? Is there any other way to check the backplane? It is a strange issue because when I was using RAIDz with 3 disks and removed the Hitachi drive the array stayed up and said it was degraded its just...

I am using a HP Microserver, got the OS running off the ODD port so got 4 bays free. They are all 1TB, 2 x Seagates and 1 x Hitachi. When I pull the drive its always with the machine off and I thought the RAIDz was failing because I had the Hitachi drive so I thought I'd create a mirror with...

I don't understand whats happening when I try to use ZFS I have been using zfsonlinux and created a mirror of two identical disks and there is no redundancy when I pull one out. The same thing happens when I create a RAIDZ array, below is the output I get when pulling one disk out of the...

Excellent, that worked. I'll see how I can get zfsonlinux installed.

I will try using zfsonlinux, does anyone know how I can remove ZFS-FUSE, I don't want it to conflict with zfsonlinux? Thanks.

Hi, I have been testing ZFS RAIDZ with 3 disks but when I unplug one disk the whole array goes down? I have 3 disks: 2 x Seagate and 1 x Hitachi all 1TB. When I unplug the Seagates either one of them the array goes down but when I unplug the Hitachi the array is degraded and I can still...