Setting Power Management Options For A Controller - Adaptec CDP-00278-02-A User Manual

• Slow Down Drives After—Period of inactivity, from 3 minutes to 3 hours, after which the drives'
spin rate is lowered. The default is Never.
Note: For disk drives that do not support slow operation, set this timer to
Never.
• Verify Drives After—Period of inactivity, from 1 hour to 24 hours, after which an inactive drive
(a drive that's already powered down) is restarted and checked to verify its health. Once the
check is complete, the drive is powered down and returns to an inactive state. The default is
Never.
• Power Off Drives After—Period of inactivity, from 3 minutes to 3 hours, after which the disk
drives are turned off. The default is Never.
6. Click OK.

Setting Power Management Options for a Controller

The power management options for a controller affect all logical drives on that controller. The main
setting is the "stay awake" period: the time during which disk drives on the controller always spin at
their peak rate.
Note: The stay awake period is relative to your local system time and time zone. To
set the time zone for power management, you must use the controller BIOS utility.
The time zone does not adjust automatically for daylight savings time. To compensate,
you must adjust the stay awake period manually, either in the BIOS or with maxView
Storage Manager. For more information, see the Adaptec RAID Controller Installation
and User's Guide.
To set the stay awake period for the disk drives on a controller:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a controller.
2. On the ribbon, in the Controller group, click Set Properties.
The Set Properties window opens.
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