Gustin Johnson wrote: > John Jardine wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:30 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >>> I've a general question on whether anyone has recommendations on 'smart' >>> UPS'es for backing up NAS/Network infrastructure. >> APC model... everything I think... has USB monitoring now. Catch the >> event and start a watchdog. When the watchdog hits zero have it start >> shutting down systems. Shut the NAS down last. >> >> Bonus points for doing this from the NAS because then the NAS can tell >> the UPS to turn itself off. >> > This is how I would do it if all my UPSs were not currently dead. > >>> Also any comments about spinning up drives and wear...? >> I have my NAS's set to spin down after 10min. So far so good. Just >> watch out for the Seagate & WD drives with the F/W bug where your drive >> dies if it spins up with exactly <some #> of errors in the log. I >> switched to the Samsung drives and those have been problem free so far. > > 10 to 15 minutes should be fine if they sit idle for long periods (ie. > they are not spinning up 2 or 3 times an hour all day). I also only use > Seagate and Western Digital drives these days, that firmware bug is > solidly in the past now and if you are the .01% of the population it is > still easily fixed. > It should be noted that I am a big fan of the WD "green" drives, I have 4 of the 1 TB drives in my Drobo, and 4 more on my Linux file server. If you need speed, the WD "black" would be my first choice for the price/performance ratio.
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
