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AGW - Thx for the write-up. Much appreciated.

From memory, I'm going to say 8-10 seconds or so? I definitely remember it being faster than a fresh boot. But again, I'm only running two drives, so not sure how the numbers might change for some of the large arrays that many are running. Of course, after several days of glorious S3 / WOL use - I dug back into this to write-up my FB,BB (For Beginners, By Beginners) Guide to S3 / WOL . . . and I somehow got things all goofed up. So, this weekend I get to wrestle with two things: 1. Server is no longer responding to magic packet. I'm hoping I just made a bad BIOS tweak - I don't remember doing that but I was in the BIOS the other day and it's plausible. 2. When it is sleeping and waking properly, I noticed that the server no longer negotiates a gigabit connection upon wake-up. It's 1000Mb/s off of cold-boot, but if I check it after wake from sleep, it seems to be coming back at 100Mb/s. It's onboard Realtek 8168b NIC, so I suspect a driver issue - which means I probably won't be able to do much about it other than hope a driver update in next unRAID release cleans it up. Or buy a NIC, but I'm inclined not to go that route if I can help it. AGW AGW - Hope you get it sorted out. Thx BQ for your comments - very helpful.

I dunno, you will be the first to test! LOL! Oh no...

I looked up what "Powered up in standby" meant. Cool. This looks promising - as virtually all my drives are WD's (they will all be soon). If this is enabled, will the drives spin up automatically (after returning from a standby state) when they are asked to be a network task?, Or does some software thing have to take place after returning from standby to make the drives ready for use? Thx

Thx muchly for the comments. They should get me started. Pity all the drives spin up, but I guess this is what happens on a Windows machine as well?? If I think about it, I'm not sure I want all the drives to spin up (16 of them) just to save a few watts of power. I'm more worried about the long-term reliability of the HDD's - especially as that's were all the $ lay in the system Being able to shut the server down and start it up from the xbox would be good though. Thx again for the help.

Hey congrats on the S3 mode. This is something I would like to be able to achieve. Is it possible you could detail exactly how you achieved this? Do all the drives spin up when you wake it up? Can a magic packet be sent by an xbox (Original using xbmc)?? Appreciate any help and thx.