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Activity every 4-5s keeping drives awake


ezelkow1

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I have a pool of 5 drives just attached via a usb enclosure all in a pool. Up until recently the drives would sleep after ~15min per the enclosure's firmware setting. However something recently (also around the time I upgraded to the beta of drivepool though Im definitely not saying it's related, could be something else entirely) seems to be doing some activity about every 5s keeping the drives permanently awake.

Ive tried investigating via resource monitor and all it shows is explorer monitoring a handful of directories on there as well as searchindexer (even though I have disabled searching on the pool but either way its all been indexed already). So I wasnt sure if anyone may have other ideas to try to track down what is keeping my drives awake. I did also recently update to the latest WSL preview, but just in case I tried turning off wsl automounting and that made no difference. Any help is appreciated :)

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Also to add to this I have disabled my network adapter and completely stopped the search service, so I see no open file handles what so ever on the drivepool drive, yet I still get this 5s access light going off and can hear the head move

Just so I know Im not going crazy taskmgr does show the periodic activity, the one shown below is the drivepool 'drive' which I think is just a 2TB sized placeholder, if I go under the individual USB disks that have no drive letter that are in the pool I also see the same accesses at the same time. So it's like the entire pool is being pinged every 5s

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There is some confusion around the forum whether DrivePool is the culprit or not.. It's a longtime open issue. If you search the forum you will find some older topics which report the same issue, with no straightforward solution, afaik.

https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/4734-drive-sleep/

https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/48-questions-regarding-hard-drive-spindownstandby/

https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/5788-hard-drives-wont-sleep-always-running-hot/

https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/7157-i-have-to-ask-what-is-the-deal-with-drives-and-sleep-or-lackthereof/

If you solve your case, maybe be so kind and tell me your solution. ;)

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I brought it up via support and they gave me some options so for future reference

1) Run chkdsk on each volume

2) Disable bitlocker detection (https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings)

3) SMART queries via scanner, so enable smart throttling

 

In my instance I had already done chkdsk on all of my volumes. So I moved on to #2, when I checked the settings.json it was actually just full of nul's, so first I stopped pool, deleted the file, restarted pool to let it generate a valid one, then I disabled the bitlocker detection. For me one of those 2 things, either having an invalid settings.json or disabling the bitlocker detection, appears to have fixed it for me

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I have a trial of StableBit and also noticed that my external USB drives did not sleep at all. As you say the drives are being activated/polled every 5 seconds or so. It is very annoying and just wastes electricity etc.

Covecube should really try and get on top of this issue and at least provide a KB article on how to tackle this issue.

The bitlocker setting has been disabled.

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