12x 3.5" HDDs spinning up simultaneously can spike ~240W, pushing a single
750W PSU close to its limit. Two-layer fix:
- Layer 1: racadm iDRAC BIOS setting (HddSeq) fires at POST before OS loads
- Layer 2: stagger-spinup.service wakes drives one at a time via hdparm on boot
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