Help! Why my FreeNAS awakens hard drive frequently?

[zcjim2003]

Recently, I built the FreeNAS 11 U4 system on my N3160 system to take place the old Windows 10 system because it always awakened my 3.5" hard disk and made a lot of noise.

But after I have set up all the system and plugins, I found that my FreeNAS system also has the problem, it awakens my 3.5" hard disk about every 5 minutes. Despite I have turned on the option of disk hibernation after 10 minutes no operation, it didn't work.

Hardware list:
1, SOYO N3160
2, 8GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
3, 2*2.5"1TB+1*SSD60GB hard disk, RAID0+L2ARC volume, connected to an extended PCI-E to SATA card
4, 1*3.5" 3TB Toshiba P300 hard disk, independent volume, connected to motherboard directly

Plug-in list：
1, Aria2, download destination: RAID0
2, Transmission, download destination: RAID0
3, ownCloud, sync dataset: RAID0

Sharing settings:
All the volumes are shared by SMB/CIFS

Other settings:
All Jail datasets and templates are on the RAID0, system dataset is also on it. No VMs and the system is on a 32GB USB driver.

My plan was backing up important data on 3.5" hard disk, downloading and reading data on RAID, so I don't want to use or awaken the 3.5" hard disk too often.

I have no clue at all now, could anyone help me please? thank you!

 

[joeschmuck]

I will just address the hard drives spinning up, not the other system design issues.

FreeNAS periodically will access the pool and was designed to have the system running 24 hours a day, not sleeping, however you can get the drives to sleep. You didn't mention the location of the System Dataset so if it's still on the pool, this is likely the cause and should be moved off the pool. Or possibly an external device it waking it up such as a PC on your network. In order to troubleshoot this issue you should unplug the network cable and see if the drives remain down. Or one of your plugins is waking it up. disable the plugins to troubleshoot that.

 

[zcjim2003]

I will just address the hard drives spinning up, not the other system design issues.

FreeNAS periodically will access the pool and was designed to have the system running 24 hours a day, not sleeping, however you can get the drives to sleep. You didn't mention the location of the System Dataset so if it's still on the pool, this is likely the cause and should be moved off the pool. Or possibly an external device it waking it up such as a PC on your network. In order to troubleshoot this issue you should unplug the network cable and see if the drives remain down. Or one of your plugins is waking it up. disable the plugins to troubleshoot that.

Thank you for your reply.
1, The system dataset was on raid 0.
2, I have tried disabling all plugins, but problem went on.
3, I also disconnected all other devices to access the FreeNAS.
4, Because only the 3.5" hard disk's spinning sound can be heard, I'm not sure about the status of RAID 0. But my purpose is to hibernate the 3.5" hard disk, the hibernation option seems not working.

 

[Chris Moore]

I have two servers with 12 drives in each spinning next to my desk all the time. I don't hear them. How is it that one drive is bothering you?
For the little bit of storage you have, you shouldn't even have a server.

 

[zcjim2003]

I have two servers with 12 drives in each spinning next to my desk all the time. I don't hear them. How is it that one drive is bothering you?
For the little bit of storage you have, you shouldn't even have a server.

It's not the working sound bothering me, it's the spinning starting sound bothering me.
I put the server in my bedroom, so quiet and power saving are my priority concern.

 

[joeschmuck]

If your System Dataset is off the spinning rust pool and you have disabled the plugins, and you have disconnected the Ethernet cable from the FreeNAS computer and your drives continue to spin up then I'm not sure what to tell you. The other option is to disable the drives from spinning down and let them run, it must be quieter than them spinning up all the time and it will also allow them to last longer.

Also, all my drives are reaching the 5 year point and they never park the heads (I disabled that feature) and never spin down unless I power down the box, I can't hear them while they are spinning unless I get right down on top of them. They are quite.

 

[Chris Moore]

Recently, I built the FreeNAS 11 U4 system on my N3160 system to take place the old Windows 10 system because it always awakened my 3.5" hard disk and made a lot of noise.

But after I have set up all the system and plugins, I found that my FreeNAS system also has the problem, it awakens my 3.5" hard disk about every 5 minutes. Despite I have turned on the option of disk hibernation after 10 minutes no operation, it didn't work.

Hardware list:
1, SOYO N3160
2, 8GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
3, 2*2.5"1TB+1*SSD60GB hard disk, RAID0+L2ARC volume, connected to an extended PCI-E to SATA card
4, 1*3.5" 3TB Toshiba P300 hard disk, independent volume, connected to motherboard directly

Plug-in list：
1, Aria2, download destination: RAID0
2, Transmission, download destination: RAID0
3, ownCloud, sync dataset: RAID0

Sharing settings:
All the volumes are shared by SMB/CIFS

Other settings:
All Jail datasets and templates are on the RAID0, system dataset is also on it. No VMs and the system is on a 32GB USB driver.

My plan was backing up important data on 3.5" hard disk, downloading and reading data on RAID, so I don't want to use or awaken the 3.5" hard disk too often.

I have no clue at all now, could anyone help me please? thank you!

For the way you are using the drive, you might as well just get a USB drive and only plug it in when you want to use it.

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