This might be a silly question. I have 1 SSD boot disk and an array of 4 disks in Raid 5 in my PC WD Reds. I've heard that its not good to power them up and down and to just let them run non stop. I've done this for the past 5 years with out losing a drive.
I am now looking to save some power and have my PC shutdown/sleep while I am sleeping and gone at work, but keep the array spinning.
Is there a way to have my PC sleep, yet keep the hard drives spinning?
The only way I can think to do this would be to have a secondary power supply that's always on and attach the array to the secondary PS.
Or is there a way in windows to do this via software?
I'm in Win10
I am now looking to save some power and have my PC shutdown/sleep while I am sleeping and gone at work, but keep the array spinning.
Is there a way to have my PC sleep, yet keep the hard drives spinning?
The only way I can think to do this would be to have a secondary power supply that's always on and attach the array to the secondary PS.
Or is there a way in windows to do this via software?
I'm in Win10