Delaying Hard Drive Power Up?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 10, 2002 @07:29AM from the saving-wear-and-tear-on-the-power-supply dept.

Bamfarooni asks: "Does anyone know of a device that will delay powering up your hard-drives (or other internal devices)? We're trying to put a pile of IDE disks into a big disk server but the spin-up power for these disks is about 3x the maximum operating current. Rather than put in something really big like an 800W power supply, if we could just put something in-line that delayed the power through specific connectors for ~1 second, then we could mange with the built-in power supplies we already have." An interesting thought, but wouldn't the BIOS need to be aware of whatever delay is introduced? Otherwise it may interpret the delay wrongly and think that the drives on the IDE chain have timed out and are faulty.

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Spinning up drives... by ArsonPerBuilding · 2002-01-11 16:31 · Score: 2, Funny

/humor
Be sure not to use excessive force while spinning up your tape drives, as you might stretch and tear the magnetic tape. This would most likely ruin the data stored on them.

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