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> Having the box "sleep" for 95% of the day, and wake up the disks only for one or two bursts of activity is interesting to me. Have you really managed to get

by rob74 5y ago

> Having the box "sleep" for 95% of the day, and wake up the disks only for one or two bursts of activity is interesting to me. Have you really managed to get that to work? I got a QNAP TS-230 a few months ago hoping I could do just that, but it turns out that even this smallest NAS box they are offering isn't really designed with this "occasional use" in mind. There are so many user questions about this (https://www.qnap.com/en-us/how-to/faq/article/why-are-my-nas-drives-not-entering-standby-mode https://www.qnap.com/en-us/how-to/faq/article/why-are-my-nas...) that they even built a half-baked utility that's supposed to give you a hint which process is preventing the drives from going into sleep mode, but it's not a great help. I have disabled all services (photo indexing with face recognition and other such crap) except for the most basic ones, but still the drives are happily chugging along, flashing their LED every few minutes, not spinning down. I know that it's basically a Linux computer, and there are probably utilities I can install to diagnose the issue better than with the above-mentioned software, but isn't this something that's supposed to work out of the box, or at least be easy for an average user to accomplish?!

makeitdouble 5y ago
I have an old Synology, so it miht be different. I run relatively few stuff on it too, with no client that consistently access the shares though samba/nfs (I cluster the scripts that run automaticaly around the same range of time, and they unmount after they’re done). I wonder if your system is not writing logs from a monitoring service (something checking your dynamic DNS, or waiting for remote connections, or pinging the internal servers to see if they’re alive). I stopped most default services, including sync (it’s done more rarely via a user script instead), and yes, it can be a PITA to understand what’s running out of the box.

by rob74 5y ago

makeitdouble 5y ago

I have an old Synology, so it miht be different. I run relatively few stuff on it too, with no client that consistently access the shares though samba/nfs (I cluster the scripts that run automaticaly around the same range of time, and they unmount after they’re done). I wonder if your system is not writing logs from a monitoring service (something checking your dynamic DNS, or waiting for remote connections, or pinging the internal servers to see if they’re alive). I stopped most default services, including sync (it’s done more rarely via a user script instead), and yes, it can be a PITA to understand what’s running out of the box.