October 17, 20196 yr Hi, I know there are many topics on the subject but I tried following the advice give in those topics and still cannot manage to get my drives to automatically spin down after a set period of no I/O activity. Default spin down delay is set to 15 minutes Folder Caching is disabled File Activity does not show any activity on the drives All dockers are stopped Interestingly, if I spin down a disk manually, it does stay spun down (see e.g. disk 1 in attached screen shot Nb.1) Any ideas ? I would greatly appreciate your thoughts Many thanks ! G Edited October 23, 20196 yr by Opawesome Added: "All dockers are stopped" + marked as "SOLVED"
October 17, 20196 yr Author I figured out that, for a reason I cannot explain, all drives had individually their "Spin down delay" setting to : "never". Changing this setting to "default" seems to have fixed the problem. G
October 17, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Opawesome said: I figured out that, for a reason I cannot explain, all drives had individually their "Spin down delay" setting to : "never". I find that very occasionally some settings like that get "lost" or don't "stick" when changed. When you run a SMART self-test the spin-down delay for that disk gets set temporarily to "never" and sometimes I've noticed it doesn't get restored properly afterwards. The solution is to toggle it manually.
October 18, 20196 yr Author 21 hours ago, John_M said: When you run a SMART self-test the spin-down delay for that disk gets set temporarily to "never" and sometimes I've noticed it doesn't get restored properly afterwards. I believe that is exactly what happened to me. I remember disks spinning down fine in the past, but I did run an extended SMART test on all my drives recently. Good to know. Edited October 18, 20196 yr by Opawesome typos
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