System clock and spindown on NV+

rmaeder wrote:
I've analyzed the spin-up process some more....this NAS is now only used for storing backups and rarely used items.

Roman I spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort trying to use spindown on my NV+, never succeeding to avoid unexpected spinups, and especially spinups IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING spindowns which I'm quite certain are not good for hard drives.

I gave-up. I think the "spinup" issue is an underlying Linux issue and not one Netgear has cared to fiddle with. Instead I decided to schedule my NV+ to power On for two hours every day, during which time I have my various PCs scheduled to perform their backups, which in my case are SyncBack Free backups of files, to MTWTFSS and Monthly folders in the ReadyNAS. Every Monday (today!) I let the NV+ run longer, because I do a manual (front pushbutton) backup to a USB drive using Rsync.

On rare occasions that I need the NV+ to be on for whatever reason ie. to retrieve a lost file or something, I turn it on with its Power pb and then return it to Sleep mode with a special Frontview button provided by member WhoCares (I think) here.