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simonhang
Aspirant
Feb 02, 2015

disk spindown problem with Ultra6

Hi,

I have a Ultra6 with 6.2.2 OS. Disk spindown is enabled. It works, except I have to disable crontab, else it will spinup disk every hour.

Also, samba is spinup disks. Any solution to this?


Another thing bothering me now is every time I try to ssh or access one share on my ultra6, it spinup all disk I have there.

My currently disk config:
disk 1: standlone
disk 2,3: mirror
disk 4,5,6 raid-5

Whatever disk I access, or even a simple ssh login, all 6 disk will be spinup. Anyway to stop this?

Thanks,
Simon

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    When the disks need to be read (a read request is made and the data is not stored in the memory cache) the disks will spin up. The OS is on all the disks so yes the disks will typically spin up and down around the same time as each other.

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