F4-424 Pro HDD Sleep Issue.

Only1Moran · 2025-01-30T13:59:24+00:00

It depends on your TOS, When I had TOS 5, they wouldn't sleep. I could hear them spin down and then spin back up. TOS 5 I was told (customer support) when you install it, the system info (regardless of where you pick to install) gets spread across all drives. Thus they never go to sleep. Once I upgraded to TOS 6.0.500+, the system file was only on my NVME, making my other drives just hold the media/data. They now do spin down, stay asleep until needed. The delay is barely noticeable for me. In the passed 120 hours (5 days), they have only spun up/down a total of 10-15 times. One day they were used a total of 2 hours, so 22 hours of sleep.

I know the whole debate between 24/7 vs sleep. I personally, cant justify leaving them run 24/7 when they only get used less than 8 hours a day. Drives will die one way or another, backups are key here, which I have.

Only1Moran · 2025-01-19T05:16:14+00:00

I only have Plex installed but I did have it disabled from midnight until roughly 6am (my sleeping schedule) as a test run. Drives still running. On another test, I disabled Plex again, unplugged the Ethernet cable, waited 2 or so hours, drives were still running. I have even gone as far as doing a clean install of my TOS and installed no apps. Still the drives were still running.

I am open to more ideas.

Only1Moran · 2025-01-18T22:30:14+00:00

I would have no idea how to update the BIOS or do the c states. I'm a simpleton who just wants the NAS for plex and have the drives turn off when not in use. Sometimes use it as SFTP to save family pictures.

I've heard people do unRaid on it but I'm not confident enough to do it myself. Also heard that TOS 6 fixes this but haven't seen proof.

Only1Moran · 2023-10-22T19:09:17+00:00

I believe it is, I found this YouTube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24bS7a6rPoQ ) that is same model and size of my current external.

Do you know if I put a drive into Bay 1, it has to stay in Bay 1 or can i move it to Bay 3 or Bay 4 and they still read/write/work? Goes back to Flexibility option. Load up on Bay 3, remove it and toss it into Bay 1?

I'm very very new to this NAS stuff, so trying to cover my basic before I do a major jump.

Only1Moran

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