I took a look at the stickied topic that goes into detail about how drive spindowns work (very informative) and how it related with StableBit Scanner. Let me go into some detail about the problem I am having. Basically, I purchased a new Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 (3TB) drive on Wednesday and it's already showing it has parked its head 2,506 times according to Scanner's built in S.M.A.R.T. data. According to StableBit, the maximum recommended head parks for the drive is 300,000. If my math is right, that value should hit 300,000 in half a year which is way too short for a drive. Now I do understand that the value is just a guideline and doesn't mean the drive is necessarily going to fail, I am just worried regardless. For example, just 13 hours ago the value was at 1,729. It has parked it's head 777 times over 13 hours while I was asleep, that's too high in my opinion. At least I have my pool duplicated in DrivePool.
So, I am wondering if there are any settings in StableBit (or even DrivePool) that may be causing this? I can see the same occur on another one of my drives (exact same model). I've checked both in Windows and in StableBit and the standby settings are set to never. I just would rather the drive stay idle and spinning over continuing to spin up and down. StableBit has advanced power management enabled and is set to Maximum Performance (no standby). In addition, I have set StableBit to "not use Direct I/O when querying S.M.A.R.T.", "never scan the surface automatically", "never scan the filesystem automatically." I have these settings set thinking that StableBit may be causing the drive to come out of standby repeatedly, but that is just an assumption as I'm not sure how the scanning works.
Has anybody else seen the same weirdness with these drives? If it matters, the drives are in a Mediasonic Probox 4 Bay (non-raid) enclosure. I am unsure if the (or any) enclosure itself has control over when the disk sleeps.
Thank you for your help!
EDIT: Windows *was* set to Balanced mode, but still had the "turn off hard disk" set to Never. Just in case, I changed it to "High Performance." If it helps, I am running Windows Server 2012 R2.
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Diablosblizz
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I took a look at the stickied topic that goes into detail about how drive spindowns work (very informative) and how it related with StableBit Scanner. Let me go into some detail about the problem I am having. Basically, I purchased a new Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 (3TB) drive on Wednesday and it's already showing it has parked its head 2,506 times according to Scanner's built in S.M.A.R.T. data. According to StableBit, the maximum recommended head parks for the drive is 300,000. If my math is right, that value should hit 300,000 in half a year which is way too short for a drive. Now I do understand that the value is just a guideline and doesn't mean the drive is necessarily going to fail, I am just worried regardless. For example, just 13 hours ago the value was at 1,729. It has parked it's head 777 times over 13 hours while I was asleep, that's too high in my opinion. At least I have my pool duplicated in DrivePool.
So, I am wondering if there are any settings in StableBit (or even DrivePool) that may be causing this? I can see the same occur on another one of my drives (exact same model). I've checked both in Windows and in StableBit and the standby settings are set to never. I just would rather the drive stay idle and spinning over continuing to spin up and down. StableBit has advanced power management enabled and is set to Maximum Performance (no standby). In addition, I have set StableBit to "not use Direct I/O when querying S.M.A.R.T.", "never scan the surface automatically", "never scan the filesystem automatically." I have these settings set thinking that StableBit may be causing the drive to come out of standby repeatedly, but that is just an assumption as I'm not sure how the scanning works.
Has anybody else seen the same weirdness with these drives? If it matters, the drives are in a Mediasonic Probox 4 Bay (non-raid) enclosure. I am unsure if the (or any) enclosure itself has control over when the disk sleeps.
Thank you for your help!
EDIT: Windows *was* set to Balanced mode, but still had the "turn off hard disk" set to Never. Just in case, I changed it to "High Performance." If it helps, I am running Windows Server 2012 R2.
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