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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...
ahpsi wrote: Maxblack, I see the same result ('No download available for this serial number') when testing a group of Seagate drives in their 'serial check utility' - including two ST31000528AS's with FW CC38. I think I'll try actually running the FW updater against one to see if it applies just for my own edification. I remember reading about the ST32000542AS occasionally requiring a 'forced' update and found one I own was in such a state. Several months later it is still spinning and happy with CC35.
Thanks for confirming about the serial check. If you do update to CC49 let us know how it worked, though I have no inclination to do so myself unless someone tells me it'll fix the spinup problem I'm experiencing.
I don't see any connection between these drives and the ST32000542AS issue you linked to.
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