Hello, i know the benefits of a staggered style approach to spinning up HDDs but with 4+ disks it is very annoying and as i use a raidexpansion fork it will only get worse.
Any way to force wake all devices when the array is accessed?
Why are you spinning those down in the first place? Is your pool very rarely accessed? Spinning up and down is probably the most stressful operation for spinning rust disks.
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100% agreed. Spin-up/spin-down wears drives MUCH faster than simply letting them spin does. If you ever have to choose between two used drives where one has three times the power-on hours, but the other has half again as many power-on cycles, pick the one with more hours and fewer cycles every time.
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