September 26, 20187 yr My server came with 8x147gb SAS 15k drives. I originally only provisioned half of them as the cache but then realized that having 4 of them in my JBOD array wasn't gaining me much in storage. Is there any downside to having this many cache drives?
September 26, 20187 yr Community Expert Downsides would be ports used, power consumption, heat, etc, as long as they are useful and you're using the adequate profile you can have up to 24 cache devices.
September 26, 20187 yr Author 10 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Downsides would be ports used, power consumption, heat, etc, as long as they are useful and you're using the adequate profile you can have up to 24 cache devices. I just realized one problem -- I'd prefer to spin down some of these cache drives and with windows VMs running it appears they basically never spin down. Will enabling any Windows Power Management features help that?
September 26, 20187 yr Community Expert Just now, Fffrank said: Will enabling any Windows Power Management features help that? Don't think so.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.