Hi,

 

I use my unRaid 4.7 server for Work as well as movies and it can be a bit of a pain if drives spin down during office hours. However rather than have things running permanently i would like to schedule a spin up before I start work and then a  spin down in the evening to save at least some power usage.

 

If this is possible I am wondering if making the server spin down will still happen if i am watching a moving late at night or will the disk in use ignore the command?

 

Thanks.

 

Adam

i wouldnt think it would ignore the command. if you start a movie at 8pm and the scheduled spin down is 830p i believe it would spin down, then immediately spin up. expect your movie to hiccup at this point.

 

however, there is no built in method to schedule spin up/downs. it is technically possible through scripting on the cron tab but its outside of my knowledge to help you more then that.

A disk in use isn't going to spin down ... that's what the spindown delay setting is for -- it will only spin down a disk that has been idle for the current delay setting.

 

The default spindown delay is saved in disk.cfg on your flash drive in "spindownDelay"  [e.g. if it's 30 minutes, this will be "spindownDelay=30"]    It would be fairly easy to modify this with a batch file that ran at start and end of business hours ... but I don't know how often UnRAID reads this value => it may only be at boot time;  or it may be reset if you Stop and then Start the array.

 

I'd just set the spindown to something like 4 hours -- this should effectively eliminate the issue during work (once accessed the first time, it's unlikely to spin down unless you really aren't using the drive) ... and any drives you used later to watch movies would eventually still spin down.

 

Alternatively, you could set your shares so the work-related shares are on one set of disks; and the other shares are on other disks ... and set the spindown times differently for those disks.    This is in fact the best solution.

 

 

All my work is on one disk so that could work. I didn't realise you could set the spindown delay separately for different disks. Can you tell me how I do that please?

All my work is on one disk so that could work. I didn't realise you could set the spindown delay separately for different disks. Can you tell me how I do that please?

 

On the Web GUI, just click on a disk (i.e. disk1, disk2, etc.) and you can set the spindown delay individually for that disk.    By default, it uses the "default" spindown ... which is what you set on the Settings page.    But you can set it individually for every drive 

Well I never knew that, thanks!