Spin down seems not to be working after firmware update

sdinjens wrote:
...where do you get all this knowledge from? I'd love to get a bit deeper understanding of my ReadyNAS but have no idea where to start.

In my case I had a couple problems that I wanted to solve; one was that my drives would spin-down, but then they would spin-up immediately ("after 0 minutes", not good for the drives) and at other times I didn't want (0200, 0400, 0625) and so I tried to figure-out what was responsible. I finally abandoned noflushd in favor of Power Timer, and modified a cron job or two to fit my new power-on window (in my case I only use the NV+ to backup my few PCs to once per day, and also once each month). I also learned a lot trying to get a USB drive formatted as EXT2 and then working the way I wanted it.

The above required implementing the SSH patch and using puTTY to get bash on the NV+ Debian-based Linux. I'm no Linux whiz, but at least I was exposed to it before, thus knowing just enough to be dangerous within the NV+ although the only real mods I've done were to the cron jobs.

Ultimately IMO the best (maybe the only?) way to learn the ReadyNAS is to solve some problem you have with it, one that is meaningful to you. :)