Spider99 100 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Ok i have turned off the bitlocker option in the xml config file - i.e. false But two to three time a minute all disks are accessed for a couple of seconds and hence wont spin down i disabled scanner and the access has stopped ver 3122 i think what am i missing in the options to stop this?? Ginoliggime 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 CyberSkulls 11 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Not sure what all you have tried, so this what comes to mind from my own recent stroll down this path... Go to "Settings", then "Scanner Settings", click on the S.M.A.R.T. Tab and check the box "Throttle Queries" as well as check the box "Do not query if the disk has spun down". Hopefully that will get you moving in the right direction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 CyberSkulls is spot on. Throttling the SMART queries should fix this issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Spider99 100 Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Ah ok throttling was unchecked - have set to 180 mins - same as balance settings currently Other than the scanner interface is there a way of checking when disks are spun down without spinning them up? a log perhaps? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 CyberSkulls 11 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Removed I didn't read the "other than the Scanner interface" Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Spider99 100 Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 Thanks guys it working One way to tell is initial slow access to directory browsing - although there must be a log somewhere i will have a look on google Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Umfriend 106 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Actually, I think Alex once wrote a piece on this somewhere here or on stablebit.com. As I understand it, the issue is that when you ask a drive for its status, that will cause the disk to spin up. IIRC there is a state accoriding to the OS which may not be the same as the state according to the actual drive and it is the latter you would want (but peeking would cause it to spin up). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I've moved all the "good posts" about how the software works, into the "Nuts and bolds" forum for each product. Umfriend is referring to this: http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/48-questions-regarding-hard-drive-spindownstandby/?p=277&do=findComment&comment=277 And yeah, it's like schrodinger's cat. You can't know without observing, and that act of looking changes the outcome. The only way to know for sure is to check the power consumption of the entire system. To do this, buy a Kill-O-Watt power meter or get a UPS/Battery Backup that reports the watt usage, as well. Keep the disks active (for instance "ping" all of the disks, or run a burst test in StableBit Scanner), and measure. And then compare from there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Ok i have turned off the bitlocker option in the xml config file - i.e. false
But two to three time a minute all disks are accessed for a couple of seconds and hence wont spin down
i disabled scanner and the access has stopped
ver 3122 i think
what am i missing in the options to stop this??
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