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RN104 disks (semi)randomly spinning up
Hi there, My RN104 disks (4x 3TB disk, RAID5) seem to randomly spin up multiple times a day and since I don't even access the NAS daily, I feel like this is a bit of a waste. Example: I accessed ...
The OS partition is on the disks, so any time the OS reads the OS partition it will need to spin up. Writes are cached, but of course at some point a write (including a write for logging) is posted - which will also spin up the drives.
Ok, so far so logical. But is there any way to make it do less writes? An hourly log seems a bit much to me. (Besides, it's supposed to be sleeping, what is it logging anyway?) I'd be more than fine with a daily, or better: weekly, log if it reduces the unnecessary disk spinups.
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