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@Hoopster just found this thread and wondering if ok to use your script?? have just taken delivery of new 16tb external hard drive to make much needed copy of my movies and tv shows, would you recommend moving approx 11tb of data over usb 3 connection using rysnc or is there any other way ? eventually when funds allow will build another unraid server for backups.

@SquidSo this as is simple as creating new script and copying this over no need to chnage anything , will the drives spin down after default time has passed.

For some reason since upgrading recycle bin doesnt seem to be catching deleted files , anyone else ??

@MightyTFantastic thanks, does this script just read from the discs every so often keeping them awake and will have to do a cron schedule for the times i require it too work

Anyone else getting black screen when booting in gui mode, everything else fine. Using igpu on intel

@MightyT is script working fine ? also what would i need to chnage for 5tb disks

Just stick with 6.9 for the moment with the other script as working for me.

How do you apply your method and can this be done on a schedule? So the drives do finally spin down.

Where looking at getting the discs to spin up at a certain time of day and staying spun up.

Will leave it on 6.9 for now till a workaround is fixed

Great many thanks have script repeating every 25 mins as spin down is at 30m so they are awake from 7pm to midnight on the weekend when plex is used most.

Brill will try it this week once i get a minute, i take it they spin down if out with cron schedule ??

So this will spin up all the drives or do i have to replace X with my drives allocation letter ? if so do i need to write the script for as much drives as i have ??

If you get a working scripted please let me know as this stuffs above my pay grade 😁 very much appreciated. Cheers lads

So the drive wont spin down after the default time has elapsed ??

@JorgeB have you tried script above ??

Ah ok anywhere else we can post and ask ?? found it a very useful script

Hi can anyone tell me why my script wont work since update to 6.9, the script spins my drives up during busy time at time #!/bin/bash disks=$(ls /dev/md* | sed "sX/dev/mdXX"); for disknum in $disks; do /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd spinup $disknum; done below is error i get Script location: /tmp/user.scripts/tmpScripts/Spin Up Drives/script Note that closing this window will abort the execution of this script /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd: line 11: echo: write error: Invalid argument /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd: line 11: echo: write error: Invalid argument /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd: line 11: echo: write error: Invalid argument /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd: line 11: echo: write error: Invalid argument /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd: line 11: echo: write error: Invalid argument /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd: line 11: echo: write error: Invalid argument any help would be great

if using an intel igpu im sure you need to whitelist the driver for it to work

My 8tb n300 in now ( only been a week mind you) running fine and cool and not any noiser than my seagate iron wolfs 4tb if im honest. Using it as parity, see how it goes as looking for drives to upgrade my 4tb ones.

Great good to hear, yeah that's the only negative point being the noise, shouldn't bother me so i think will give them a go, many thanks

Just wondering if any one uses these drives. Currently use 4tb ironwolfs, I'm going to be slowly upgrading to larger drives. Toshiba seems to be a little cheaper. Online reviews seem OK. Just wonder if real life usage out there.

Is these such a script to keep my drives spun up during the day say 9am to 10pm then spin down for the rest of the night ?

You have Intel graphics enabled within bios?

Works perfect anyway my apologies in misleading