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RN104 SMB, spin-down, booting issues and possible solution for power efficiency
Hello to all, I was using for about 6 years ReadyNas Duo (Sparc). Due network speed and fan noise but very good realibility I wanted to upgrade to another ReadyNas familiy member and got RN104 OS verison 6.4.2. Main features that I need are following:
- keeping arround 500 GB of familiy photos/videos in RAID configuration. Accessing once/twice a week maximum. Increasing arround 100GB per year.
- using backup of important data on external USB disk every month
- using torrent client
- using DLNA for playing on TV but also Readynas as a source for playing music over AirPlay
Disk confing is following:
bay 1: 1 GB hitachi
bay 2: 1 GB hitachi
Bay 3: 0.5 GB Seagate
Bay1 + bay2 are single raid 1 volume. Bay 3 HDD has no redudance and it is used for torrent downloads and music storage. My idea was to use NAS in a way that HDD in bay 3 will be much more used and that other 2 will be more of the time in low power mode which will save on consumption but also incerase disk life. Do you think that this is possible or if this is correct thinking?
I have few questions:
1) On previos NAS, disk spin-down was working excelent but here disks are spining up every few minutes. I red another tread and tried with removing all add-ins like Transmission etc but it didn't solve the problem. Will there be any solution in future OS uprgades as I don't have hours of free time to deal with this?
2) NAS is power down/up during night/morning which I will switch off as it looks like after every power down there is 15 minutes disk activity in background ? Only difference is that on old NAS I could see in admin panel that sync is in progress but on RN104 I don't have any info about it. In log file I can see that file scanning happening. If this scanning is normal than I will switch off this scheduled power management ?
3) If I manualy switch on RN104 and not wait for scheduled power-on (at least I think so ) it will disable SMB service so I need to log in and enable it again. Here are some lines from log file:
May 03 09:31:02 malisa104 systemd[1]: smb.service operation timed out. Terminating.
May 03 09:31:02 malisa104 systemd[1]: Unit smb.service entered failed state.
May 03 09:31:03 malisa104 readynasd[3585]: Service 'smb.service' goto unexpected state 'failed'. Expect to be 'active'('activating').
... after enabling in admin panel...
May 03 09:35:34 malisa104 smbd[4574]: STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connections
4) Sometimes it happens that NAS will not boot - with blue led blinking and "booting" message on LCD. After few hours of waiting only power cable disconnection solves the issue.
What can be an issue?
I'm realy happy with speed and silent work except during file scanning after boot but other things were better working on old sparc verison :( .
Any advise to switch to some other model or to change brand (sinology).
Thanks
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- If you are running services that are using the disks then the disks won't be able to stay spun down. Also the OS is mirrored across all the disks so disk spin down will likely spin down all or none of the disks.
- What sync and what file scanning? Can you provide more details.
- Which services are you running under System > Settings > Services ? Also which apps are you running?
- Can you send in your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig) noting roughly when this happened?
Logs sent.
2. After every shutdown and power off, RadyNas 104 will scan all files on shares. You have it in logs.
3. smb, itunes, readydlna, rsync, upnp, http, https, ssh
4. sent
Thanks
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