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James

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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