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Any way to adjust disk energy saving settings?
I am using Seagate ST32000542AS disks. Every 30 seconds, or so, I can hear one or possibly both hard drives "click" off. All of the smart data looks good to me (but I'm happy to supply it if you need it).
I found a forum post on seagate's site explaining several settings that could be changed, and I wondered if:
a- this was advisable
-and-
b- if there was a way to do this in RAIDiator.
Here's the forum post I was referring to: http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Desktop-HD ... td-p/69518
Thoughts?
I found a forum post on seagate's site explaining several settings that could be changed, and I wondered if:
a- this was advisable
-and-
b- if there was a way to do this in RAIDiator.
Here's the forum post I was referring to: http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Desktop-HD ... td-p/69518
Thoughts?
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- What model readynas are you referring to ?
You won't be able to change those from raidiator, although there are linux commands there, I think you'd need to hool the drive up to a sata port on your pc and try to do it that way.
You would need a backup before altering settings like that.
I don't know if it's necessary or advisable, the disks are on the HCL for some units and I am not aware of specific firmware that you need on the drive. - It's a ReadyNAS Duo v1.
Here are the suggested changes (shouldn't require being put in a different computer):
smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/sdx (x=drive)
and
hdparm -B 254 /dev/sdx (x=drive)
The changes make sense to me, but it would be good to know if these would be *known* to jack things up. - Yes, you can't do that from raidiator, you'd need to ssh in.
You would need a backup.
It doesn't sound like this method is supported by seagate though. If they supported it they'd probably have issued a utility to do it.
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