Promise Technology Vess A Series Product Manual page 118

Vess A6120 Storage Server Appliance
• Highlight SMART and press the spacebar to toggle between Enable and Disable .
• Highlight SMART Poll Interval and press the backspace key to erase
the current value. Type a new interval value (1 to 1440 minutes).
• Highlight Poll Interval and press the backspace key to erase the
current value. Type a new interval value (15 to 255 seconds).
• Highlight Adaptive Writeback Cache and press the spacebar
to toggle between Enabled and Disabled.
• Highlight Forced Read Ahead Cache and press the spacebar
to toggle between Enabled and Disabled .
• Highlight HDD Power Saving and the spacebar to choose a time
period. After an HDD has been idle for a set period of time:
Power Saving Idle Time – Parks the read/write heads
Power Saving Standby Time – Lowers disk rotation speed
Power Saving Stopped Time – Spins down the disk (stops rotation)
You must also enable Power Management on the disk array. See "Creating a Disk
Array – Advanced (CLU)" on page 120 and "Enabling Media Patrol, PDM, and
Power Management on a Disk Array (CLU)" on page 125.
1. Press Control-A to save your settings.
Notes
Power Management must be enabled on the disk array for the HDD Power Saving settings to
be effective. See "Making Disk Array Settings (CLU)" on page 123.
Power management is limited to the features your HDDs actually support.
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