Disks that spin down when not in-use (1hr spin-down delay set):

 

Disk 1

Disk 2

Disk 3

Disk 4

Disk 5

Disk 10

 

Disks that do not spin down:

 

Disk 6

Disk 7

Disk 8

Disk 9

Disk 11

Disk 12

Disk 13

 

Under Disk Settings, I have enable spinup groups set to: YES & Default spin down delay set to 1 hour

 

Any idea's for me?

 

 

5.0-rc8a

 

 

 

I'm also having this problem on 5.0-rc11a - I recently upgraded to unraid plus and installed a 3rd data drive taking me up to 4 drives in total. Parity, Drive 1 & Drive 2 all spin down but Drive 3 always seems to stay spun up. Hitting the spin down button in the web gui seems to have mixed results and sometimes takes down all drives and sometimes leaves number 3 up. Hitting the button again will take drive 3 down. I've tried a mix of settings from using default spin down for each drive and adding a number manually and have tried spin up groups enabled and disabled and still the same. Drive 3 is new and has very little data on so I'm sure that nothing is using it.

 

The box also seems to have developed intermittent issues when going into and out of sleep which I can't help feeling is somehow related to the spin down issue so I want to get that solved first.

 

I can post a sys log & build details later as I'm at work at the moment, but was hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction of a solution or some other things to check first?

In addition to logs, a clear list of the drive types, controller and other hardware details would at least be useful. 

 

Neither of you has any plug-ins or other additional software running, right?

If you are using sickbeard and/or couchpotato, I have found they keep the disks spun up pretty much all of the time..

 

Try without all plugins and then try again..

No plugins other than simple features running on mine. Oh, and air video server for streaming to ipad. Sickbeard etc are all running on a windows machine. I'll get he requested info listed tonight if I get the chance although evenings are a bit crazy at the moment as he in-laws are visiting!!

It does not matter if they are running on a windows machine... If they talk to the array then they will spin up disks... try and shut the windows box off and spin the disks down, chances are they will stay down..

No plugins other than simple features running on mine. Oh, and air video server for streaming to ipad. Sickbeard etc are all running on a windows machine.

None of those should be ignored as a possible contributor to the lack of spin-down on some drives.  Vanilla unRAID is what counts for initial diagnosis, and then adding others back one at a time to see when things change.

So for those of us still learning (like me) to temporarily uninstall or disable a plugin, in my case air video, simple features and unmenu (if that counts) can I just put the flash drive in my pc and remove certain files and them replace them after testing?

For plugins you can use disable them from the webinterface (at lease most plugins have that option), otherwise you need to remove the plg file and reboot your system..

Ok, thanks, I'll give that a try as soon as I get the chance. Although I did stumble upon this post earlier and I'm wondering if there might be some sort of issue going on, as I'm apparently not the only person seeing this behaviour.....

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25606.0