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Yea, unraid was/is a non starter for me due to existing data and the filesystem difference etc. i have a few hundred TB and it would be all kinds of incomprehensible mess I dont have time for with kids. Now had i saw this whole data obsession/hobby thing becoming what it was.. i definitely would have taken a different path if i was starting from scratch but it is what it is. I will concur that the stablebit suite is without parallel windows side. its served me well for quite some time and I honestly hope it will serve me well until that fateful day hopefully some time a reaaaaally long time from now lol. I love it. that being said, the spindown issue is not inconsequential. when youre looking at a chassis with 30x7200rpm disks crammed within a half an inch of one another in an upstairs office spinning 24/7, the summer months prove a huge issue. I just cant run my air cold enough without making the rest of the house a fridge. Theres also the power savings however miniscule from letting them spin down. The age old argument surrounding which is the lesser evil for longevity etc. i know until i began using drivepool, i always had my drives spin down and would still be doing so if i were able.

I ended up moving to unraid to solve this problem. I still maintain that DrivePool (and Scanner) is one of the best pieces of software I ever purchased on Windows, but it is a shame to see this remain unresolved.

yea this was discussed previously and i'd tried it in the past, does not work for me either. just edited both json and restarted. set my spindown to 1m. drives keep on spinning away. only time i can get them to spindown is stopping the service(s) entirely.