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By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:10:33 +0000

Ade,

LightsOut is aware of the DriveExtenderMigrator and handles this on suspend/hibernation (in fact the service is stopped and restarted on resume).
Give it a try!

Martin

By: Ade Miller

Ade Miller — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:11:08 +0000

Martin,

I’ve thought about installing something like LightsOut, there appear to be a couple of possible add-ins that do this sort of thing. I’ve also read that WHS is doing things in the background like checking disks and balancing files across disks and that hibernating may effect this. More investigation required at any rate.

Ade

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:34:21 +0000

To save more energy you have to install a power management Add-In like LightsOut.
Have a look here: http://www.home-server-blog.de/add-ins/lightsout/#en

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By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:00:04 +0000

I’ve got a similar WHS with a BE-2300 and two HDDs, one a power hungry WD 500GB RE drive and the other a power-friendly Hitachi P7K500 500GB drive. With a 430W Earthwatts (it’s what I had lying around), it idles around 42-43W, which is pretty good. I would think that your system idles under 40W.

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