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Ultra 4 Plus spin down question
I have recently upgraded to an Ultra4 Plus. I have four 2TB Hitachi drives installed. I have the NAS set to spin down the drives after 15 minutes of no activity. However, I've noticed that when turnin...
I had Spin Down set to 15 minutes on my NVX for a while, but the delay in accessing it was a real PITA. So, I turned of Spin Down. My Hitache 3TB drives in my prime NAS have been running (with few exceptions) 24/7 for the last year since they were installed without any problems. There are two in there along with two Seagate 1TB drives, one of which has been running for 24/7 for almost two years.
Now, on my backup NVX, (also with two Hitachi 3TB and two Seagate 1TB drives) I do have Spin Down set to kick in after 90 minutes. So it is up from roughly midnight when the backup jobs kick in to around 5:30 AM which is about 90 minutes after the last backup job runs. Oh, both units are set to run disk scrubbing weekly which is basically a scheduled resync of the drives which takes about 10 hours of intensive disk activity.
Actually, even in the PC envior0nment, there are two schools of thought. One is to leave the PC on so that the drive is spinning consistently at it's normal speed as it is easier than the start up/shut down action on the drives by turning off the PC all the time vs turning off the PC if your not going to use it for 15 minutes to save electricity and drive wear. The points on both sides have been around for almost as long as we have had hard drives in our PC's.
In my NV+ (now rehomed) which I first set up 5 years ago had two hard drives in it at the start. On of those drives ran for over three years 24/7 and had well over 25,000 hours on it when it was removed to install larger drives. The other drive failed within the first month, but was replaced with one of the same model and it ran for the next three years, also logging over 25,000 hours before also being replaced with a larger drive.
Now, on my backup NVX, (also with two Hitachi 3TB and two Seagate 1TB drives) I do have Spin Down set to kick in after 90 minutes. So it is up from roughly midnight when the backup jobs kick in to around 5:30 AM which is about 90 minutes after the last backup job runs. Oh, both units are set to run disk scrubbing weekly which is basically a scheduled resync of the drives which takes about 10 hours of intensive disk activity.
Actually, even in the PC envior0nment, there are two schools of thought. One is to leave the PC on so that the drive is spinning consistently at it's normal speed as it is easier than the start up/shut down action on the drives by turning off the PC all the time vs turning off the PC if your not going to use it for 15 minutes to save electricity and drive wear. The points on both sides have been around for almost as long as we have had hard drives in our PC's.
In my NV+ (now rehomed) which I first set up 5 years ago had two hard drives in it at the start. On of those drives ran for over three years 24/7 and had well over 25,000 hours on it when it was removed to install larger drives. The other drive failed within the first month, but was replaced with one of the same model and it ran for the next three years, also logging over 25,000 hours before also being replaced with a larger drive.
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