Hope this is appropriate and someone can help me.
I have 2 Pools consisting of 2x2TB HDDs, x2 duplication. One Pool is solely used for client backups, the other for most of the shares. Also, a Server Backup HDD and a seperate data HDD. Scanner is running as well.
I would like these HDDs to spin down when not used for more then one minute (and is there a downside to this, i.e., is spinning up something that contributes to wear & tear of the HDD?). I have set this in the Power Options of Windows.
Given that there is a myriad of settings in scanner that affects this, I am at a loss how to accomplish this and especially as I would preferably like to have Scanner read the SMART details (amongst which the temps I think). So how do you guys get this to work?
The types of HDDs I have are:
Seagate 2TB NAS (ST2000VN000)
Seagate 2TB Desktop (ST2000DM001)
Seagate 8TB Archive
WD 4TB NAS (WD40EFRX)
HGST 700GB (HTS541075A9E680, 2.5")
What I have done now, for all HDDs in Scanner is:
- Disk Settings: All options are OFF (incl. Query power mode directly from disk)
- Disk Control: Disabled Advanced Power Management and Standby Timer (although the latter will not remain blacnk and show a fat dash when I open Disk Control again...)
- Scanner Settings -> SMART: Throttle queries not more than 5 minutes
As far as I can tell, all HDDs go to stand-by but are woken again after 5 minutes (I guess due to reading SMART).
Can this be improved upon?
Kind rgds,
Umf