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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...
A perfectly reasonable choice. Obviously correct operation is more important than the relatively small power savings (and many users also have gadgets that don't handle the spin-up delay well).
maxblack wrote: And my point is that it appears noflushd is not doing spindown correctly, or at least it didn't with my drives.
So my personal preference is to leave them spin, unless you can shut them down for 23 hours out of 24, as I'm doing with my NV+.
I am doing something somewhat less conservative (spin down threshold of a couple hours). But I haven't seen your issue.
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