Hello,
I have being a user of FreeNAS a very long time in a low-power NAS setup at home (2 mirror ZFS 500GB data disks + FreeNAS installed on a CF-card).
I let my disks spin down after 30 minutes of idle time and this has been working reliable for many years.
In recent development of FreeNAS some things have changed to prevent this mechanism to work properly; this is due to the ".system" dataset which is set on my only mirror data pool. Many small writes to this dataset preventing the...
Harddisk spindown made impossible
I have being a user of FreeNAS a very long time in a low-power NAS setup at home (2 mirror ZFS 500GB data disks + FreeNAS installed on a CF-card).
I let my disks spin down after 30 minutes of idle time and this has been working reliable for many years.
In recent development of FreeNAS some things have changed to prevent this mechanism to work properly; this is due to the ".system" dataset which is set on my only mirror data pool. Many small writes to this dataset preventing the...
Harddisk spindown made impossible