Weird, settings for 5 min, 10 min and 20 min are working OK (i.e. hdd spins down and stays like that for hours), but 30 min, 60 min and 120 min are not (no spin down). I have iosnoop running and can confirm no disk activity during test time. Is this some sort of a bug?
some hdd spindown settings are not working
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- OMV 5.x
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- someuser08
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Maybe there are HDDs out there that do support only specific values. You should check the docs of your devices.
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Sure, I will check. What is the exact command that OMV uses to set that up?
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This is the job of hdparm. The configuration file is /etc/hdparm.conf. I think you can use hparm or smartmontools to check which values are supported. I think Google will help you.
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So I tested this a bit and it seems hdparm values over 240 are not working (although accepted) by my WD drives. So 20 min maximum idle timeout via that.
I switched to hd-idle and that worked fine for longer timeouts. Thanks for pointers!
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It's been said by other users on this forum that SMART check can reset the idle timer, so try increasing that and see if that solves your problem.
Go to Storage -> S.M.A.R.T. and increase the check interval to a number higher than the idle time.
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