RAID drive spindown

[greengolftee87]

So this is my first time using raid. I created a RAID 0 array of 2x1.5 TB drives and so far so good. I didnt see any big jumps in speed but that wasnt what I was looking for, I just wanted a large continous drive. Anyway, the only thing that I cant figure out is how to get the drives so spin down. They run 24x7 no matter what. All the other drives that arent raided in any way spin down via Win7's hard drive settings and there are no settings to control that in my sata cards BIOS. Is there something special to do this for RAID arrays?

 

[greengolftee87]

No one knows now to do this? If I cant figure it out in a couple more days im just going to destroy the array.

Would building array through disk management instead of the card allow the drives to sleep?

 

[-=Antimatter=-]

What you created was a large continuous drive with twice the risk of data loss. Just use diskmgmt.msc to setup a pseudo- JBOD or use some kind of JBOD option in the BIOS to remake the array.

The array won't spin down if the OS is installed on it IIRC.