October 11, 201312 yr I have two issues that are becoming annoying: First, when I start writing to a share that is spun down and it has to spin up, the write times out and fails before the drive finishes spinning up. Is there any way to increase cache/time it waits before timing out? Why can't unraid just accept the write and then flush it all do disk once the drive is ready? Second, If I'm streaming a movie to another machine while one of the other unraid drives needs to spin up, the stream stops until that other drive finishes spinning up. Why would a completely different drive affect the current read from an already active drive?
October 11, 201312 yr The first issue is a function of whatever you're using to write to the drive -- it's timing out; NOT UnRAID. Haven't seen this issue with Windows Explorer or TeraCopy => what are you using? The second issue is common. That's why UnRAID supports "spin-up groups". Drives on the same controller, or at least the same controller channel, will cause this behavior. You need to do some experimentation to determine which drives interact with each other; but once determined, if you set up spin-up groups, then all drives in the group will be spun up together ... and you'll no longer have that annoying little pause in your streams.
October 11, 201312 yr I discussed the spin-up groups in more detail in this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=29394.msg264067#msg264067
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