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Disk Spin Down power management settings
On the page "Just released – RAIDiator 5.3.5 (ARM)" (http://www.readynas.com/?p=6412) from May 24 2012, you will find this in the release notes: The following are changes since RAIDiator 5.3.4: Ne...
Problem more or less solved!
After some heavy search on google and reading many forum threads I have decided to leave the setting as default (disabled disk spin-down). It seems the energy saving from having disk spin-down enabled or not are small and when using RAID on a NAS there is a risk using spin-down and it takes some time waiting for spin-up to complete. I still wonder if the actual problem has been solved by Netgear or not, but I will continue having the disks running at all time. The constant temperature is around 40 degrees Celsius and rotation speed of the fan is around 1360 RPM. Reading some other forums I have confirmed that disk temperature has little or no impact on disk lifetime on modern disks. The only downside as I can see it is the sound generated by constant spinning disks and fan.
After some heavy search on google and reading many forum threads I have decided to leave the setting as default (disabled disk spin-down). It seems the energy saving from having disk spin-down enabled or not are small and when using RAID on a NAS there is a risk using spin-down and it takes some time waiting for spin-up to complete. I still wonder if the actual problem has been solved by Netgear or not, but I will continue having the disks running at all time. The constant temperature is around 40 degrees Celsius and rotation speed of the fan is around 1360 RPM. Reading some other forums I have confirmed that disk temperature has little or no impact on disk lifetime on modern disks. The only downside as I can see it is the sound generated by constant spinning disks and fan.
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