[NCSA-discuss] RAID recommendations?

[Steve Wolfe]

reading shows you might want a "MAID"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_array_of_idle_disks

not sure if Linux will do the power management for you ..
automatically or w/ a command (do your writes, then power down)

quote:
In computing, a massive array of idle disks (more commonly known as a
MAID) is a system using hundreds to thousands of hard drives for
near-line storage of data. MAID is designed for 'Write Once, Read
Occasionally' (WORO) applications. In a MAID each drive is only spun
up on demand as needed to access the data stored on that drive. This
is not unlike a very large 'Just a Bunch Of Disks' (JBOD) but with
power management.