DATOptic ARC-1680 Series - Manual (Page 140)

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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designed to meet short-term startup power demand as well as
steady state conditions.
Areca RAID controller has included the option for customer to
select the disk drives sequentially stagger power up value. The
values can be selected from 0.4s to 6s per step which powers up
one drive.
6.8.2.2 Time to Hdd Low Power Idle (Minutes)
This option delivers lower power consumption by automatically
unloading recording heads during the setting idle time.
6.8.2.3 Time To Hdd Low RPM Mode (Minutes)
This function can automatically spin disks at lower RPM if there
have not been used during the setting idle time.
6.8.2.4 Time To Spin Down Idle HDD (Minutes)
This function can automatically spin down the drive if it hasn't
been accessed for a certain amount of time. This value is used
by the drive to determine how long to wait (with no disk activity,
before turning off the spindle motor to save power.)
6.8.3 Ethernet Configuration
Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration.
A customer doesn’t need to create a reserved space on the arrays
before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working. The firm-
ware-embedded Web Browser-based RAID manager can access
it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer
either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or
patches required.
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol that
lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the
assignment of IP (Internet Protocol) configurations on a computer
network. When using the internet’s set of protocols (TCP/IP), in
order for a computer system to communicate to another com-
puter system, it needs a unique IP address. Without DHCP, the