[PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

[Thomas Groman]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:59:10 -0500
tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com wrote:

> Tom,I'd imagine that John is contempt with the risk - he is using
> Raid 0 (striping on the array) - so any kind of failure will cost him
> data. I'd imagine is that the backup is his safety net.

fair enough, still would not trust some random vendor's hardware raid0
implementation to provide the best performance compared to an open
source software solution.


> Jon,Is your array simply going to powersafe mode?Can you try to
> diagnose it little with the bag of tricks in this web
> page?https://wiki.archlinux.org/index .php/hdparm
> Hope it helps,Tomas

hdparm commands probably won't work through a raid controller
like that. If it's spindown that's really causing the issue (doesn't
sound like it as he said disks were rumbling not whirring up) he would
probably need to find the manufacturer specific way to adjust timeouts.