Disks spun up but show up as spun down!


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Hey there, by investigating the high powerdraw of my system I stumbled upon a very bad quirk in my system.

 

The system shows all disks as spun down but they are actually spun up! I can feel them vibrating or spinning back up, after I forced them to spin down.

 

That is a HUGE difference of nearly 40W!!! Not to talk about the always running disks that should be spun down to enhance their lifespan.

 

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Here my diagnostics.

dringenet-ms-diagnostics-20210214-1144.zip

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Whoops, my bad you are right, I got confused with the startup temp issue. :/ 

 

If memory serve*, the issue with telegraph is that some components are either not up-to-date or missing.

I think It can be fixed with post arguments in the docker template.

 

* recent experience show that my memory is not always to be trusted. :D :D 

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5 hours ago, ChatNoir said:

Whoops, my bad you are right, I got confused with the startup temp issue. :/ 

 

If memory serve*, the issue with telegraph is that some components are either not up-to-date or missing.

I think It can be fixed with post arguments in the docker template.

 

* recent experience show that my memory is not always to be trusted. :D :D 

I've disabled the plugin "HDDTemps" in the telegraf config. It would be awesome to get the functionality back up to monitor the HDD temps via grafana. But unti that I am happy that the HDDs stay spun down.

 

I am tackling the issue in the next few days, if I find the time for it.

 

Maybe you could explain the "post agrument" idea a little further?

 

Thanks!

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I am certainly not an expert here, but I think I read about it on one of the numerous topics about the spin issue on RCs (in Bug reports / Prerelease).

 

From what I get, you can have any docker container run a set of command at startup with the post arguments (available in Advanced View).

I am certainly not a Linux guy so I just run the recommended commands from UUD, I did not dig too much on what specific command can help for spin down.

 

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