RN528X drives are being accessed, or are doing self-maintenance, or something, 24/7 and it's driving my wife nuts. I've tried looking at "Logging" - nothing there. How can I diagnose what the drives are actually doing and get to the root cause of this constant HDD spinning? Drives are spinning in a "kerchunk-kerchunk-kerchunk" manner with half-second type cadence, they don't sound the way they normally do when just fetching files. Access is working fine, no issues there. Help!

Problem still occurring, drives are spinning constantly. Learned the following:1) Powering down the PC connected to it while leaving the RN528X ETH0 connected does nothing - RN528X drives keep ker-chugging away2) Disconnecting ETH0 from the RN528X doesn't immediately stop the drives, but after a few minutes they do stop regardless of the PC state3) RN528X File Search Indexing and Antivirus are turned off Does this mean some other device is accessing the RN528X, possibly over the internet?? Also telling, the Performance graphs show the Volumes reading/writing at precisely 1 minute intervals. Does this mean something?

Was the OneDrive Personal sync, which I learned a bit about. First, the Settings/Options portion is set to automatically sync every 30 seconds. Since my OneDrive Personal isn't changing all THAT fast, I would expect this to maybe burp briefly every30 seconds. But no, it just grinds continuously at this setting. I changed it to once/day and now it's nice and quiet like it should be. Another thing I noticed is the default sync is bi-directional - however since OneDrive Personal files are all stored in the cloud, the only real purpose of the NAS drive's copy is a back-up in the event I cancel OneDrive or whatever. And it's basically just another back-up that I can locally fetch if need-be. OneDrive has been rock solid for years (we use it in Corporate as well) so it's probably a waste of time to even have this app running at all. But anyway, thanks very much for yours and Sandshark 's suggestions. As usual you guys helped me get to the bottom of a nagging problem.

The scheduled maintenance tasks (defrag, balance, disk test, scrub) would show up in the logs. Do you use the file search feature or have antivirus enabled? Is the volume status saying it is degraded? Have you downloaded the log zip file, and looked in there (particularly at the disk health info in disk-info.log)? There's a lot of info in the log zip that isn't shown in the web ui.

StephenB wrote:The scheduled maintenance tasks (defrag, balance, disk test, scrub) would show up in the logs. Do you use the file search feature or have antivirus enabled? Is the volume status saying it is degraded? Have you downloaded the log zip file, and looked in there (particularly at the disk health info in disk-info.log)? There's a lot of info in the log zip that isn't shown in the web ui.Hi StephenB , - File search is enabled, as is anti-virus. Are you suggesting one or both be disabled?- Downloaded logs, dozens of files... where to look and what to look for?- Under System--> Volumes the little pie chart and text don't indicate "degraded"... opened Settings (small wheel in the box containing pie chart), don't see anything in there that indicates "degraded". Where to look otherwise?

jimk1963 wrote: - Under System--> Volumes the little pie chart and text don't indicate "degraded"... opened Settings (small wheel in the box containing pie chart), don't see anything in there that indicates "degraded". Where to look otherwise? Those are the right places. If the volume isn't degraded, then it isn't resyncing (which would explain the disk activity). jimk1963 wrote: - File search is enabled, as is anti-virus. Are you suggesting one or both be disabled? Both will generate disk activity when you aren't connected to the NAS. Perhaps try disabling file search first, and see if that helps.

RN528X drives constantly spinning even after a reboot, what is causing this?!

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StephenB
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Jan 24, 2021
The scheduled maintenance tasks (defrag, balance, disk test, scrub) would show up in the logs.

Do you use the file search feature or have antivirus enabled? Is the volume status saying it is degraded?

Have you downloaded the log zip file, and looked in there (particularly at the disk health info in disk-info.log)? There's a lot of info in the log zip that isn't shown in the web ui.
- jimk1963
  Virtuoso
  Jan 25, 2021
  StephenB wrote:
  The scheduled maintenance tasks (defrag, balance, disk test, scrub) would show up in the logs.
  
  Do you use the file search feature or have antivirus enabled? Is the volume status saying it is degraded?
  
  Have you downloaded the log zip file, and looked in there (particularly at the disk health info in disk-info.log)? There's a lot of info in the log zip that isn't shown in the web ui.
  Hi StephenB ,
  
  - File search is enabled, as is anti-virus. Are you suggesting one or both be disabled?
  - Downloaded logs, dozens of files... where to look and what to look for?
  - Under System--> Volumes the little pie chart and text don't indicate "degraded"... opened Settings (small wheel in the box containing pie chart), don't see anything in there that indicates "degraded". Where to look otherwise?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 25, 2021
    jimk1963 wrote:
    
    - Under System--> Volumes the little pie chart and text don't indicate "degraded"... opened Settings (small wheel in the box containing pie chart), don't see anything in there that indicates "degraded". Where to look otherwise?
    
    Those are the right places. If the volume isn't degraded, then it isn't resyncing (which would explain the disk activity).
    
    jimk1963 wrote:
    
    - File search is enabled, as is anti-virus. Are you suggesting one or both be disabled?
    
    Both will generate disk activity when you aren't connected to the NAS. Perhaps try disabling file search first, and see if that helps.

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