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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...
linusdunkers wrote: ...I will continue having the disks running at all time... The only downside as I can see it is the sound generated by constant spinning disks and fan.
My ReadyNAS is nearby my workstation, and when I was using "Disk Spin Down" it would drive me nuts to note that disks would spin-down and then spin-up again immediately. Could not possibly be good for them to do this (a *lot*!) when they were warm to begin with. I surfed like mad and found that the responsible code (noflushd iirc) was suspect at best, and maybe not compatible w/each & every drive type.
In my case I instead Soft Power Off my ReadyNAS by schedule now, run it for only an hour a day and six hours on Monday when I do my backup of the RN itself.
In your case I'm sure you are making the right decision to just leave it run.
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