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what, if any, kind of power saving options do you guys use? I keep my machine on 24/7, and I'm just wondering if/when I should tell my disks to spin down.


My Linux fileserver is on 24/7 -- I need to investigate disk spin-down. Question for Mark: is this configurable with hdparm even though /dev/sda is actually a hardware RAID array with 4 disks in it?

My webserver is on 24/7, and I don't intend to look at disk spin-down. My Windows box is on 24/7, and the disks are set to spin down after 2 hours.

What I want to do is set my Windows box to go into standby and enable Wake-on-LAN, but I need to investigate whether I can get my router to send the magic packets off the back of an inbound connection (e.g. Remote Desktop/whatever).
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