Looking for a sata card that supports staggered drive spin up


timekiller

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My unraid server has 21 drives and the power supply can't handle spinning up all the drives at once. I'm currently using a Highpoint 750 (40 port) sata card but it appears to be having issues and won't be supported in the next release of unraid.

 

Looking for a card that supports staggered spin up and ideally up to 30 drives. If I have to buy 2 16 ports cards, that would work too, but the key is that it MUST support staggered spin up.

 

Before it's mentioned - no I don't let my drives spin down when idle, so yes the only time they all spin up at once is at boot. Yes I can upgrade my power supply, but when I hit 30 drives, I'm not sure a single power supply will have enough juice.

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I've looked into "staggered spinup" for a DIY DAS. The key search term you want to research is "disk PUIS" ... Power Up In Standby. It looks a little tricky, but quite doable. (That isn't a solution for me because my drives are connected via a SAS expander.)

 

[I don't use Unraid.]

 

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2 hours ago, UhClem said:

I've looked into "staggered spinup" for a DIY DAS. The key search term you want to research is "disk PUIS" ... Power Up In Standby. It looks a little tricky, but quite doable. (That isn't a solution for me because my drives are connected via a SAS expander.)

 

[I don't use Unraid.]

 

Yup, I know "PUIS" because that's how Highpoint refers to it. I said "staggered spin up" because that a term that I figure more people would recognize. I've been searching, but either this is not a common feature, or it's just not documented well, I can't find much...

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