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P35C Staggered Spinup Harddisks

P35C Staggered Spinup Harddisks
« on: January 21, 2010, 12:25:46 am »
Hello everyone

I have multiple harddisks which I want to start in staggered spinup when the computer boots, but can somebody please tell me how I can activate this function.


I have a P35C-DS3R, with intel Sata controller.

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Re: P35C Staggered Spinup Harddisks
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2010, 05:15:27 pm »
Hello everyone

I have multiple harddisks which I want to start in staggered spinup when the computer boots, but can somebody please tell me how I can activate this function.


I have a P35C-DS3R, with intel Sata controller.

which revision board, as a point of interest...


I never found a way and with 8hdd's all hammering the psu it was a bit of strain on it!

biggest annoynace I had with the intel sata was the time taken to boot past drive detection, always paused about 8 seconds there and it drove me nuts.


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Re: P35C Staggered Spinup Harddisks
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2010, 08:13:33 pm »
I can't think of any way of doing this except with a custom built circuit. The only solution is to use a heftier PSU or add another dedicated PSU just for the drives.
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