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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 thanks--regarding firmware I did search Seagate on my S/Ns as I said and it said "no downloads available" so if this feature of their website is working properly I guess I should not be concerned about having CC38 vs. CC49. Incidentally, when I bought my RND4410 last spring I bought also a spare drive and it has CC38 as well, printed right on the drive label.
In another thread here I questioned why our NAS units always spin-up at 02:05 and 04:00. These are two times every day when I see the drives spinning back up right away. At other times like the one I quoted above, the drives have spun-down after a PC backup to the NAS i.e. a normal timeout (but then it sometimes/often spins-up again "after 0 minutes".
Who here knows the story of the (now old from 2008) UpdateSpindown_4.1.4.bin? It's only referenced in the forum, does not install to 4.1.7, and as a result it appears I suffer the consequences of the couple bugs mentioned in the UpdateSpindown discussion (I have to look-up that thread again and post a link here--iirc they closed that thread to more posts! :evil:).
In another thread here I questioned why our NAS units always spin-up at 02:05 and 04:00. These are two times every day when I see the drives spinning back up right away. At other times like the one I quoted above, the drives have spun-down after a PC backup to the NAS i.e. a normal timeout (but then it sometimes/often spins-up again "after 0 minutes".
Who here knows the story of the (now old from 2008) UpdateSpindown_4.1.4.bin? It's only referenced in the forum, does not install to 4.1.7, and as a result it appears I suffer the consequences of the couple bugs mentioned in the UpdateSpindown discussion (I have to look-up that thread again and post a link here--iirc they closed that thread to more posts! :evil:).
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