Before either of your software my "data" (non-OS) WHS2011 Hard-drives were always spinning down/sleeping after 40 minutes. I never gave it much thought and lived with the 8-10 sec spinup. This was just kind of the out of the box WHS2011 power settings and me just thinking that I've saved a few watts for the 80% of the hours they weren't being accessed.
After installing your software: Drives seem to be always spinning. Only downsides are extra electricity ~3-5Watts/drive & possible wear and tear on the HDD??
I did find and read the nice thread already discussing how to try to make the drives back to OOB WHS2011 standby/spin down:
I understand now there's a lot of settings/things to keep track of. That's ok. I tried the settings to get they to sleep again and have mixed results on my mix of brands of HDDs.
I've now decided to jump camps and goto the always spinning / no standby or idle for the HDDs. I can live with 15-20Watts of electricity extra.
Christopher -
I read that this is your preferred method. I've done the adjustment in the WHS2011 RPD desktop to the power options for HDD from 40min now to "Never".
Anything in the DrivePool scanner settings that you recommend having to change to definitely not interfere with all HDDs always being on?
A) Read Power mode directly from disk: on/off? [i've set them all to read directly from disk currently.])
Disk Control -> Advanced power management is greyed out on all my HDDs.
C) I uncheck "Standby Timer" and hit set. Next time I goto that settings it's the horizontal line in the box.
Any comments / thoughts on my perceived notion of extra wear and tear on the HDDs?
BTW - I'm ordering a WD Red 4TB in a few days which should be happy with the always on settings.
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Before either of your software my "data" (non-OS) WHS2011 Hard-drives were always spinning down/sleeping after 40 minutes. I never gave it much thought and lived with the 8-10 sec spinup. This was just kind of the out of the box WHS2011 power settings and me just thinking that I've saved a few watts for the 80% of the hours they weren't being accessed.
After installing your software: Drives seem to be always spinning. Only downsides are extra electricity ~3-5Watts/drive & possible wear and tear on the HDD??
I did find and read the nice thread already discussing how to try to make the drives back to OOB WHS2011 standby/spin down:
http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/48-questions-regarding-hard-drive-spindownstandby/
I understand now there's a lot of settings/things to keep track of. That's ok. I tried the settings to get they to sleep again and have mixed results on my mix of brands of HDDs.
I've now decided to jump camps and goto the always spinning / no standby or idle for the HDDs. I can live with 15-20Watts of electricity extra.
Christopher -
I read that this is your preferred method. I've done the adjustment in the WHS2011 RPD desktop to the power options for HDD from 40min now to "Never".
Anything in the DrivePool scanner settings that you recommend having to change to definitely not interfere with all HDDs always being on?
A) Read Power mode directly from disk: on/off? [i've set them all to read directly from disk currently.])
Disk Control -> Advanced power management is greyed out on all my HDDs.
C) I uncheck "Standby Timer" and hit set. Next time I goto that settings it's the horizontal line in the box.
Any comments / thoughts on my perceived notion of extra wear and tear on the HDDs?
BTW - I'm ordering a WD Red 4TB in a few days which should be happy with the always on settings.
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