Kevin Horton
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I'm getting ready to build my first FreeNAS box, and hope to use a few WD Green drives. That implies I'll need to adjust the HD head park settings using wdidle3.exe.
The FreeNAS system motherboard will be a SuperMicro X10SL7-F, with a G3258 (or similar) CPU.
How to run wdidle3.exe? The problem is that I don't own a Windows PC. We've got two Mac laptops, and a Mac Mini - that's it. I've done a fair bit of Googling, but haven't found any hints on a way to adjust the HD head park settings using this hardware - I could boot into Windows, but I don't have access to SATA connected to the main board on any of these guys.
I could buy a cheap used PC, but I wouldn't have any other use for it, so it would be collecting dust on a shelf in the basement most of the time. We're trying to downsize to move into smaller digs, so I'm not anxious to collect something else that is only rarely used.
Would it be possible to use my future FreeNAS box to do this, if it has an optical drive to run the Universal Boot CD? I would remove the USB sticks with the FreeNAS system on them, unplug all but one WD Green drive, and boot from the optical drive. Run wdidle3.exe on one drive, shutdown, change drives and repeat until I've done them all. Will this work?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
The FreeNAS system motherboard will be a SuperMicro X10SL7-F, with a G3258 (or similar) CPU.
How to run wdidle3.exe? The problem is that I don't own a Windows PC. We've got two Mac laptops, and a Mac Mini - that's it. I've done a fair bit of Googling, but haven't found any hints on a way to adjust the HD head park settings using this hardware - I could boot into Windows, but I don't have access to SATA connected to the main board on any of these guys.
I could buy a cheap used PC, but I wouldn't have any other use for it, so it would be collecting dust on a shelf in the basement most of the time. We're trying to downsize to move into smaller digs, so I'm not anxious to collect something else that is only rarely used.
Would it be possible to use my future FreeNAS box to do this, if it has an optical drive to run the Universal Boot CD? I would remove the USB sticks with the FreeNAS system on them, unplug all but one WD Green drive, and boot from the optical drive. Run wdidle3.exe on one drive, shutdown, change drives and repeat until I've done them all. Will this work?
Thanks in advance for any advice.