What is your spin down setting?

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Hi Guys,

Just curious to know what you set your spin down setting to on your Drobo FS to?

On my old 2nd gen Drobo (USB) I use to have a script write to the drive every 5 mins or so, so it never spun down and it went for 2+ years with no problems or failures (it was on every day and only turned off now and then).

I’ve currently got my FS set to spin down every 2 hours idle time… but I did have it at 6 and may raise it again, as from past experience, the drives I have spun up/down or switched off regularly have died on me.

So what is yours set at?

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I have mine set to a scant 15 minutes to try and keep my office as quiet as possible. However, something about AFP is “chatty” as every so often my Mac Mini will spontaneously access a share and wake it up.

I can’t point to any drive failures as a result of spin-up/down, but I can’t say it’s not a factor either. :slight_smile:

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Spin down got broken on the latest FW upgrade as far as I know. Mine was set to 1hour before the upgrade. Worked fine.