Disk spin-down: Power savings with a catch
Disk spin-down and MAID can reduce power consumption, but spin-up latency and time-outs are drawbacks. Read about one firm's experience with disk spin-down.
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Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, learned the hard way about MAID's drawbacks. FMI uses the Copan Revolution 300T virtual tape library (VTL) to store large sets of DNA sequencing data and microscopy images. FMI fronts the system with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SAM-FS (now owned by Oracle Corp.) highly scalable clustered file system to create a "bottomless NAS," according to Dean Flanders, head of informatics at FMI.
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