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Reducing the power consumption of the Physical

Device

The HDD Power Saving is the function to spin down the Physical Device that is not in use. The HDD Power Saving

reduces the power consumption of the System by spinning down the Physical Device.

Set the Power Saving in each RAID Controllers.

You can see which type of the Physical Device is available for the HDD Power Saving function in the table below.

Status Device Type

Ready Online Hotspare

Hard disk Drive (HDD) N/A N/A

✓

Solid State Drive (HDD(SSD)) N/A N/A N/A

Tape device / CD/DVD - - -

The settings for HDD Power Saving are available only in the Advanced Mode.

Setting Power Saving Devices

The procedure of setting the Power Saving Devices for each RAID Controller is described below.

The Physical Device that can see the HDD Power Saving function is the Hard Disk Drive of which the status is

Hot Spare.

Some types of RAID Controller do not support HDD Power Saving. If it does not support this

function, the items [HDD Power Saving (Hot Spare)] and [Device Standby Time] on the

[Options] tab do not appear. "optctrl" command of raidcmd is failed.

RAID Viewer

Step 1 Start the RAID Viewer. Click the RAID Controller on the Tree View. Then click [Properties] on the [File] menu.

Step 2 Click the [Options] tab in the [RAID

Controller #X Properties] dialog box. Change the

value of [HDD Power Saving (Hot Spare)] to [Enable]

or [Disable]. Click [OK] or [Apply].

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