chk
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Hi,
I am currently evaluating TrueNAS Scale 22.02-RC.2 to replace my old home NAS. My aim is to host PiHole, Unifi Controller and maybe some other containerized services and to have some TBs of storage shared via SMB / WebDAV.
As I barely use the storage - maybe 2-4 times a week for system backup for 2 PCs or when I have to store some scanned documents - I would like to spin down the HDDs when they are inactive to minimize noise, heat and energy consumption
I am using an Intel C3558 based board (A2SDi-4C-HLN4F) with an M.2 SSD for the system and two 3,5" HDDs for the storage. I installed TrueNAS Scale on the SSD and created a pool on the two HDDs, but did not installed anything else or setup sharing yet.
I tried to set the timeout to 5 min and the power managegment to 1, however the two HDDs are never going to spin down. For testing I deleted the pool on those HDDs and now they are spin down. So it seems possible that TrueNAS Scale is able to spin down the HDDs.
Is spin down not supported when having a ZFS pool on the disks? Or is something else using the pool I am not aware of? How would you configure a TrueNAS Scale system with a big, but low-accesed storage pool that minimizes noise, heat and energy consumption?
Any hints / recommendations are highly appreciated. Thank you.
I am currently evaluating TrueNAS Scale 22.02-RC.2 to replace my old home NAS. My aim is to host PiHole, Unifi Controller and maybe some other containerized services and to have some TBs of storage shared via SMB / WebDAV.
As I barely use the storage - maybe 2-4 times a week for system backup for 2 PCs or when I have to store some scanned documents - I would like to spin down the HDDs when they are inactive to minimize noise, heat and energy consumption
I am using an Intel C3558 based board (A2SDi-4C-HLN4F) with an M.2 SSD for the system and two 3,5" HDDs for the storage. I installed TrueNAS Scale on the SSD and created a pool on the two HDDs, but did not installed anything else or setup sharing yet.
I tried to set the timeout to 5 min and the power managegment to 1, however the two HDDs are never going to spin down. For testing I deleted the pool on those HDDs and now they are spin down. So it seems possible that TrueNAS Scale is able to spin down the HDDs.
Is spin down not supported when having a ZFS pool on the disks? Or is something else using the pool I am not aware of? How would you configure a TrueNAS Scale system with a big, but low-accesed storage pool that minimizes noise, heat and energy consumption?
Any hints / recommendations are highly appreciated. Thank you.