https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/3ware/Recent content in 3ware on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenFri, 12 Jun 2009 19:37:00 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2009/06/12/power-saving-sata-raid-controller/Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:37:00 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2009/06/12/power-saving-sata-raid-controller/<p>I&rsquo;ve been a longtime user of Adaptec SATA RAID cards (<a href="http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sas/value/SAS-3805/">3805</a>, <a href="http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sas/performance/SAS-5805/">5805</a>, <a href="http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sas/performance/SAS-51245/">51245</a>), but over the years I&rsquo;ve become more energy saving conscious, and the Adaptec controllers did not support Windows power management.</p> <p>My workstations are normally running in the &ldquo;Balanced&rdquo; power mode so that they will go to sleep after an hour, but sometimes I need to run computationally intensive tasks that leave the machines running 24/7.</p> <p>During these periods the disks don&rsquo;t need to be on and I want the disks to spin down, like they would had they been directly connected and not in a RAID configuration.</p>