fukie
Dabbler
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2014
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- 11
Hi all,
I'm having a dilemma as I have a bunch of HDDs as my backup pool which I am planning to rsync like once a week or maybe fortnightly? However, because I have another 7 HDDs as my main pool, totalling 10-15 drives right now, heat is a concern as temperatures have been hovering around 38-46 degrees, especially on the older drives. I live on the equator on a tropical island, hence its a challenge to bring HDD temps below 40 degrees which is the recommended. My case is a Norco 4224 with the fans at full, I even switched to a Pentium G series processor to help reduce the overall system temperatures.
Less of upgrading my fans to noisier ones (its already crazy noisy enough...), I'm looking at APM and HDD standby for my backup pool only. I will still leave the main pool HDDs running 24x7 on, no standby and APM as well, its my primary pool which is accessed on a daily basis.
I did a search around the forums but most discussions were focused on their primary pool which most conclusion was, not to turn on APM and HDD standby due to jails, system logs, random accesses and etc.
However, my situation is that the HDDs are only used during rsyncs which may only happened once a week.
Any advice and what should the recommended settings be, while still keeping SMART tests (short, twice a month and long, once a month) and scrubs active (twice a month). And also, how often can my rsyncs occur (every day? every week? or every fortnight?) with the APM and HDD standby settings turned on. I'm looking at completely turning off / standby the HDDs for this backup pool to reduce heat and also some watts.
Thank you.
I'm having a dilemma as I have a bunch of HDDs as my backup pool which I am planning to rsync like once a week or maybe fortnightly? However, because I have another 7 HDDs as my main pool, totalling 10-15 drives right now, heat is a concern as temperatures have been hovering around 38-46 degrees, especially on the older drives. I live on the equator on a tropical island, hence its a challenge to bring HDD temps below 40 degrees which is the recommended. My case is a Norco 4224 with the fans at full, I even switched to a Pentium G series processor to help reduce the overall system temperatures.
Less of upgrading my fans to noisier ones (its already crazy noisy enough...), I'm looking at APM and HDD standby for my backup pool only. I will still leave the main pool HDDs running 24x7 on, no standby and APM as well, its my primary pool which is accessed on a daily basis.
I did a search around the forums but most discussions were focused on their primary pool which most conclusion was, not to turn on APM and HDD standby due to jails, system logs, random accesses and etc.
However, my situation is that the HDDs are only used during rsyncs which may only happened once a week.
Any advice and what should the recommended settings be, while still keeping SMART tests (short, twice a month and long, once a month) and scrubs active (twice a month). And also, how often can my rsyncs occur (every day? every week? or every fortnight?) with the APM and HDD standby settings turned on. I'm looking at completely turning off / standby the HDDs for this backup pool to reduce heat and also some watts.
Thank you.