schneeb

I think I had a power cut during an extended smart test once so that could explain it!

oooooh - doh didnt realise you can set drives individually; was set to never! thanks for the advice.

Nope same thing, disks all spun down but parity drive up with 0's on the stats:

The data disks all spindown so that should mean nothing is using the array no? I assume nothing uses just the parity drive? I cleared the disk stats and the data drives spun down again after 0 read/writes to any of the HDDs. I'm not sure what Turbo Write is? I've disabled the folder caching plugin encase that is the culprit!

no joy, same symptom; disk 1 & 3 spun down but parity still active!

whoops! will do and confirm spindown shortly!

attached! batcave-diagnostics-20190209-1230.zip

I recently installed unraid with some older hardware, having it setup with just 3 disk to begin with before migrating data, now that the data is migrated it is now populated with 5 disks and I've also added a cache device. Once I moved my dockers to live on the cache, the disks will all spin down as expected apart from the parity drive which will stay active; if you manually request it to spindown it will do so and remain spun down until the other disks are active again but once again the parity will be left up after the others spin back down! Is this intended? Is there a setting i've missed somewhere? *edit* solved thankyou all!