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Spin Up, Spin Down
GDay All, I have just installed an RND4000 V3 ReadyNAS NV+ onto my network. After some intial problems (My Fault) I managed to get everything working as expected. Then I decided to turn on the spin...
Many green disks spin down on their own (and their algorithm seems tuned to Windows PCs) - which is why the load cycle count grows so quickly. For those disks it will grow no matter what the spin-down timer is. wdidle3 can help (though perhaps risky).
And that will still save power. Spinning up also creates quite a bit of delay before your data is available, so in my view relatively long spin down times are the right balance.
Slasky wrote: If it doesn't spin down before its been 2 hours, then it wouldn't be that much of a problem, no :)
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