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How to stop external HDDs sleeping
Hi,
I have an old ReadyNAS that I have a HDD station connected to via USB. I use this NAS for Media storage, and have films and series on the external HDDs. In the settings, I have specifically...
KillerBob wrote:
Hi,
I have an old ReadyNAS that I have a HDD station connected to via USB. I use this NAS for Media storage, and have films and series on the external HDDs. In the settings, I have specifically not set the sleep functins for the HDDs, as it is really annoying if the HDDs fall asleep when I am watching files from it. It works for the HDDs in the NAS, but NOT for the externally connected HDDs.
Are the settings specific between the internal and external HDDs?
What ReadyNAS model is this and what firmware is it running?
Though I don't use USB drives much anymore, my recollection is that the NAS won't spin down external disks. Though that assumes the current firmware - there are some posts saying that this behavior changed for the old sparc v1 models in firmware release 4.1.7.
It is an old ReadyNAS Ultra 2, and the FW is currently at 6.9.4. The external HDDs are connected via the USB connection on the front.
I figured out that the external HDDs only fall asleep when the dock is connected to the USB3 connection on the front. When connected to one of the USB2 connections on the back, they stay awake...
This is a bad implementation of power features if I ever saw one...
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