unraid spinup many disks


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So funny you should post this - I was about to ask EXACTLY the same question.

 

My only other refinement is that this behavior seems to have started at the same time I installed a cache drive for the first time.  Perhaps coincidence, or the first time I was really monitoring behaviors, but thought I'd mention it.

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Sounds like you have disks in the same spinup group. Check This Post for info on spinup groups, how to check and change...

 

From my "Devices" Page:

 

parity device: pci-0000:00:08.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 host1 (sda) Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML0221F305ZHSD

disk1 device: pci-0000:00:08.0-scsi-1:0:0:0 host2 (sdb) ST31000528AS_9VP5PKS8

disk2 device: pci-0000:00:08.1-scsi-0:0:0:0 host3 (sdc) ST3500418AS_9VMH6A5T

disk3 device: pci-0000:00:08.1-scsi-1:0:0:0 host4 (sdd) ST3500418AS_5VMHPG0S

disk4 device: pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-2:0:0:0 host12 (sdi) SAMSUNG_HD502HJ_S27FJ9BZ306131

disk5 device: pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-1:0:0:0 host11 (sdh) ST31500341AS_9VS3H9CP

disk6 device: pci-0000:04:00.0-scsi-3:0:0:0 host13 (sdj) ST31000528AS_9VP953SJ

 

You can see by the "host" designation, they are all in different spinup groups...

 

Shawn

 

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Great - thank you... I've disabled spin-up groups for the time being.

 

I couldn't see where to find the place to change the group assignments (referenced in post "You can go to the 'Disk' pages accessed from the Main page for each disk and change this if desired.")  Has this changed since 4.5?

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I think once user disable spinup group in Setting, regardless how disks were assigned into groups. unRAID should totally ignore them. otherwise what is the purpose of "disable" spin-up group. i have similar issues, all disks connected to my 8-ports Supermicro controller are assigned to same spin-up group and even i disable spinup group i still see some disks were spun up without reason not even at same share when i was accessing others.

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Ahh.. maybe you copied some data at some point to /mnt/diskx instead of /mnt/share which would account for that. Glad it is sorted out.

 

Great - thank you... I've disabled spin-up groups for the time being.

 

I couldn't see where to find the place to change the group assignments (referenced in post "You can go to the 'Disk' pages accessed from the Main page for each disk and change this if desired.")  Has this changed since 4.5?

 

Not sure about 4.5 - I am on 4.7. On the main page, if I click on "disk1" or "disk2", etc, I get:

 

disk1 settings
Partition format: unknown 
File sytem type: reiserfs 
Spin down delay:  Use default 
Spinup group(s):  host2
  

 

And here you can change that spin up group name. Each of my disks has a different one...

 

Shawn

 

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