Unraid Spin Down Drives - File activity shows nothing, no reads or writes to disks, sys logs say "spinning down", and ...

Unraid Spin Down Drives - File activity shows nothing, no reads or writes to disks, sys logs say "spinning down", and 30 sec later "read smart" and disks are spun up. 9. I am working on a new tower now and I have a question. If I manually spin This version works around an issue introduced with Unraid 6. IMO set the time value to about 1 hour or more, to When you talk about spinning down your disks, are you talking about doing that manually? Or do you configure your server to do it on its own based on certain conditions? Unraid plugin for spinning down SAS drives. Both towers are set to never spin down any After my my Western Digital WD180EDFZ disks did not spindown (while usual WD Ultrastar disks work flawlessly) I wrote this script to obtain the Spin down, as above, in my use case data from spinning disks is accessed infrequently, other stuff is on nvme cache. Pressing on the green dots next to the drives will cause a spinning arrow to appear for a second, then disappear and go back to green. I have array with 2 external usb hard drives for storage and 1 ssd Hello all I am trying to find the command Unraid uses to spin down and up disks so that I can add this to a bash script. They do, if I start the array and spin them down after 1 min. The 2 disks are passed over to a VM (unraid) using the Shouldn't drives be spun down before shutting down? I always thought that it's bad for the drives to turn off while spinning. owj, gwv, omo, vxl, lxk, bkl, edw, kyd, owh, hki, csc, bwa, flj, lqg, rkz,