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maxblack
May 10, 2011Aspirant
Seagate 7200.12 and spindown/spinup/UpdateSpindown
I have my RND4410 NV+ set to spin-down its drives at 10 minutes, because my one/only use for the NAS is once per day at 2300 when I backup a certain PC to it. But I have noticed that sometimes my driv...
mdgm-ntgr
May 10, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
2. Not all drives with the same model number can use the same firmware. You could ask SeaGate to confirm whether you need to do a firmware update on your disks. If you need to update the firmware, I would backup your data first (if possible), power down, remove disks (label order), connect the disk to a SATA port on your PC and check the disk using vendor tools
As for your drives spinning back up, do you see any timestamped entries in the logs around the same time that might indicate what is using the disks?
As for your drives spinning back up, do you see any timestamped entries in the logs around the same time that might indicate what is using the disks?
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