Comments on: A Bad WD Sentinel DX4000 Power Design http://www.mswhs.com/2012/01/a-bad-wd-sentinel-dx4000-power-design/ Sat, 18 May 2013 05:19:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: [BLOCKED BY STBV] WD Sentinel DX4000 — unacceptable power design | Koitsu's Blog http://www.mswhs.com/2012/01/a-bad-wd-sentinel-dx4000-power-design/#comment-16394 [BLOCKED BY STBV] WD Sentinel DX4000 — unacceptable power design | Koitsu's Blog Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:12:48 +0000 http://www.mswhs.com/?p=15728#comment-16394 [...] stating that the concerns over disk power draw on system power-up are incorrect. They state that the disks are spun up individually, with 2 second intervals between each disk. This is good to know. I would not have written my “scathing review” had Western [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.mswhs.com/2012/01/a-bad-wd-sentinel-dx4000-power-design/#comment-15084 Tony Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:45:42 +0000 http://www.mswhs.com/?p=15728#comment-15084 Good Morning,

I checked with our Engineering on this reported Power issue by this blogger. There were some incorrect assumptions made, key to these assumptions were that we power up all the drives at once. The disks are never spun up all at once. They are sequenced at 2 second intervals via individual power converters.

Tony Andrews

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