spin up

verb4

1. •
   To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.

   • The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II. — 2005
2. •
   To power up, launch, or instantiate.

   • We spun up a virtual server in the cloud to handle the additional load.
3. •
   (figurative) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity; to spool up.
4. •
   (figurative) To fabricate.