I am finding that one of the most frustration things I am running into (and this is dating back to the FIRST release) is having to wait for all the drives to spin up etc.

 

When trying to copy things over, etc, it becomes really annoying waiting for drives to spin up.

 

Tom has a VERY large laundry list and I don't want to make it longer, so I was wondering if someone could write a small batch file or something, that would access (and therefore start) all the drives on the array.

 

Then maybe I can put it into my startup folder and therefore when I start my laptop it would access the network and BAM all drives are spun up.

 

Any help would be great.

 

FYI - I do understand the need and want to spin the drives down....so I am not questioning that.

 

Thanks

 

For me, it's pretty rare when I want to spin all drives up, but it does happen.  When it does, I just browse to the management page, start a parity check, and immediately stop the check.  This works for me on those rare occasions, but if you need to do it more frequently, I don't have any good advice.

Doesn't stopping a parity check keep the parity invalid?

 

Doesn't stopping a parity check keep the parity invalid?

 

 

yes, parity will be fine.

your just checking it, not recreating

Expanding on X4n, if you have Valid Parity, start a check, and then stop it, your parity will still be listed as valid.  However, it does update the "Last Time Parity Checked" time stamp which is a little problematic to me.  I would like that to only update upon completion of a parity check.

You can touch all the shares in a batch file and put that in your startup folder in windows.  I think "net use" and then trying to remap them will do it.  If you can't figure it out mail me and I will send you an example.

The parity check/cancel method is what I use, though not ideal.

Added to laundry list:

- add spinup/spindown all drives button