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budmang on Oct 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the T...

The "green" is certainly a gimmick. But the lower power usage is not. 10 Backblaze Storage Pods full of "green" drives use the same amount of power as 8 pods full of "regular" drives.

toomuchtodo on Oct 9, 2012 [–]

Can you spin all the drives down in a pod once the pod is full of data until a restore is needed?

stephengillie on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

Don't modern OSes send spin-down commands to HDDs when not in use?

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