Microsoft documents disk idle mechanism and testing tools

nicov · Post by **nicov** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:14 am

This is an interesting link:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pn ... ction.mspx

It documents the disk idle mechanisms in Windows, how to configure it (including a number of configurations that can't be done via the UI), and a new (available for Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1) diagnostic tool to monitor disk idle behavior.

Isochroma · Post by **Isochroma** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:03 pm

I found this topic after much searching

viewtopic.php?p=376114#376114

Here's a thread on StorageReview documenting spindown software/hardware support. You might be interested to read it.