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• 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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