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normal drive temperature range?
Hey guys, WD says the normal operating temp is 0c-65c (for both models - I guess cooling is much better in the eda500). Though I have been reading studies that say over 40c can shorten the lifespan...
Thanks. As we approach winter here in NY the ambient temps should be dropping. Spin down? Do people here really use that feature? People used to flip out in the freenas forum when someone wanted to spin down their nas. I guess i assumed this was a nas convention. If anyone here uses spin down I'm curious what settings you all use.
Blanker-2 wrote:
Spin down? Do people here really use that feature? People used to flip out in the freenas forum when someone wanted to spin down their nas.
There has been some debate about it over the years here also, but many people do use it. One issue is that it the NAS will be unresponsive for a few seconds when the disks spin up.
On my main NAS I enable spindown on schedule - disabling it during the day, but enabling it at night with a 5 minute threshold. There are background activities at night (backup being one), so I don't think it actually spins down that much. My backup NAS have it enabled all the time.
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