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Hard Drive noise on Time Machine
Hello, I have been using a WD Green 2TB on my readynas 102, and I use Time machine. But when Time machine is backing up, drive makes lots of noise. I just changed the hard drive for a brand new WD...
Disk write caching can help reduce seeking because it gives the drive a chance to produce a better write sequence. We had an option for this in os4 but I don't see it in os6. You need to have a UPS though to be safe. I can't get to my machine at the moment to run a command to check if it is enabled automatically when a UPS is detected, but I suspect they just took it out to avoid people making the mistake of enabling it without a UPS in place. There are hdparm commands you can issue manually to enable it. You also might get a small improvement from running the defrag job.
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