Fffrank Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 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? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
Fffrank Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 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? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Just now, Fffrank said: Will enabling any Windows Power Management features help that? Don't think so. Quote Link to comment
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