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Re: Spindown and iSCSI

CharlesR
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Spindown and iSCSI

I have a RN102 (one drive) with only SMB, HTTP and HTTPS running. I activated spindown at 5 minutes and logged the below. I am using iSCSI (although the PC is currently hibernating). It appears every 8 or so seconds it's getting spun up? Would this be via iSCSI or something else waking the drive? It appears I would be much better off keeping it spinning versus the constant down and up...


Dec 08 14:21:16 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7263]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0:WD-WCC4N0984545:80.00A08:5400]
Dec 08 14:21:21 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7263]: Quitting on signal...
Dec 08 14:21:21 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Enabling spindown for disk 1 [sda,0:0:WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0:WD-WCC4N0984545:80.00A08:5400]
Dec 08 14:26:26 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Dec 08 14:26:37 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:08.
Dec 08 14:31:38 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Dec 08 14:31:49 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:08.
Dec 08 14:36:50 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Dec 08 14:37:01 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:08.
Dec 08 14:42:02 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Dec 08 14:42:13 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:09.
Dec 08 14:47:14 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning down disk 1 (/dev/sda).
Dec 08 14:47:24 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Spinning up disk 1 (/dev/sda) after 0:00:07.
Dec 08 14:47:55 ReadyNAS102 noflushd[7274]: Quitting on signal...
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mdgm-ntgr
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Re: Spindown and iSCSI

Yes, you should't use spindown with iSCSI.

Do you have any apps installed?
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CharlesR
Guide

Re: Spindown and iSCSI

mdgm wrote:
Do you have any apps installed?


No, I avoid those like the plague... especially with low powered guys.
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