James
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I'm using a Samsung HN-M500MBB 2.5" drive (as the system disk) and my Recalibration Retries is also constantly increasing. It's currently on 529!
The drive is showing no other signs of failure and spent a long time in my HTPC as the TV recording storage disk.
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That all makes sense - thanks for answering my extra questions.
I shall be purchasing my license in the near future!
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Still interested to know the answers to the questions above, but thought I would update to say that I now have "Standby" statuses in my Power column.
I had to use the SMART throttling. I set "Throttle queries" to 25 minutes and the Windows hard disk standby time to 20 minutes. I also have the "Do not query if the disk has spun down" option checked.
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What a fantastically detailed reply. Thank you!
A couple of follow-up questions:
1. When the standby timer checkbox is semi-selected (grey), what does that mean?
2. Would you recommend that I use Windows to put the disks in standby, or the disk firmware functionality?
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I am trying to get a better understanding of the hard drive spindown/standby options in Scanner.
My situation:
- I'm using the latest Betas of Scanner and DrivePool on Windows Server 2012 Essentials.
- I have two data disks which I've added to a single pool.
- In the Windows power options I have set the hard drive standby time to 30 minutes.
Here are my questions:
When I right click a drive in the drive list there is an option called "Put into Standby". If I click this then I hear the drive spindown and the text in the Power column (you need to add this column by right-clicking headings) changes to "Standby or Active". This text will not change back to "Active" until I restart the service, regardless of whether the drive has spun up again. Is this a bug? Should this text reflect the standby status of the drive?
If I select a drive and click "Disk control" at the bottom of the screen I find a couple of settings that mention standby, in particular "Standby timer", which has a semi-selected (grey) checkbox. How do these settings relate to the Windows power settings? Do I need to alter them?
My end goal is to have my drives go into standby after 30 minutes idle time.
Windows Server 2012 essentials backups won't work in pool
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I have my client backups folder in my DrivePool drive - it all seems to work ok.
(I realise that doesn't solve your problem, but it does mean it's possible!)