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Spindown
Hello, I think there is something wrong with the Spindown Function of my ReadyNAS 204 (OS 6.5.0) cause it is alwas accessing the harddrives, even if there is nothing in use. I have no services runni...
If you are comfortable with SSH, an easy to enable the block_dump option to noflushd is to add it to the TIMEOUT variable in /etc/default/noflushd. For example, if the content of that file contains "TIMEOUT=5", change it to "TIMEOUT=5 -b".
Then `systemctl restart noflushd`.
The logs you get after enabling the block_dump option would be useful.
I posted my findings in this thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Readynas-OS-6-6-drives-wont-spindown/m-p/1152307#M117501
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