Jun
28
1Tb Maxtor basic drives & ZFS
I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after 15minutes of being idle and I will tell you this, ZFS doesn’t like this feature… I fixed this with a crontab writing a tmp file in a directory on the disk but that gave me some unwanted problems in some cases. This morning I was fed up with it and I wanted a good solution and it seems, there is one… but the application doesn’t have a lot of functions when you use it on MacOSX it appeared… so you really need to do this on a windows computer (scary huh) so here is the application. Have fun!
