Server 2008: Disk offline/online

[k0mpressor]

So I've got a small file server running at home that I setup "Ghetto-RAID" as I like to call it. Which is basically just a batch file that copies any and all files to another internal drive to the server. 2 of these disks I use as "backup" disks, and truly only use them whenever I am backing up either of the other 2 disks.

Are there any benefits to marking these backup drives as "offline" in disk management when they are not in use? Does this consume less power than the drive would have in an online, yet idle state? Increase the drives life, etc?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

AFAIK, marking them offline will just cause the OS to ignore them. Unless you turn the drive power off, it won't really consume less power.

 

[hamunaptra]

naw, no real benefits...

although, since u are using 2 disks as backup , if they both have the same backup data, you could use windows RAID 1 capabilities to kinda do this transparently =)