fizzgig656
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Im setting up a new nas for home use and have decided to go with freenas. previously a nas4free user, but still a bit of a newbie.
Question is, should i set the WD red hard-drives to spin down or use Advanced Power Management settings? i will have just 4 HDD creating 2 mirrored Vdevs (if ive understood it correctly). I'm not going to be using the NAS constantly, in fact 80% of the time it will be idle.
I've tried to search for the answer, I assume constantly used environment its not viable to keep spinning them down, but for home use?
Pros/cons and advise on settings please?
Question is, should i set the WD red hard-drives to spin down or use Advanced Power Management settings? i will have just 4 HDD creating 2 mirrored Vdevs (if ive understood it correctly). I'm not going to be using the NAS constantly, in fact 80% of the time it will be idle.
I've tried to search for the answer, I assume constantly used environment its not viable to keep spinning them down, but for home use?
Pros/cons and advise on settings please?
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