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    ZFS on Linux zpool disk spin-up daemon

    The Linux runtime power management (RPM) provides everything necessary to put unused disks to sleep and wake them up when required. If properly configured this can save energy in SOHO environments where disks often idle in the night and during non office hours. However, a major drawback when...
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    HDD Sleep not working

    Hi everyone, i do need some help and hopefully someone knows where the problem is. My setup: Proxmox installation on NVME, 2 Physical HDD's (besides some others) attached as Data Storage for the TrueNAS Core which is running in a VM. My problem is that those drives are not needed all the time...
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    HDDs still spin down despite hdparm -S 0

    Hi there! I'm struggling with a recent issue. Apparently this hasn't been an issue before as the HDDs have been running 24/7 since I started running proxmox close to 9 months ago. My HDDs spin down after about 15 minutes of inactivity. This means they are spinning down and back up anywhere from...
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    [SOLVED] Can I spin down disks since I'm not using them?

    Hi, I'm not able to physically remove those hard disks so I wonder is there a way to remotely shut them down/spin them down till I'll need to use them again in few weeks/months? I'm already using pass-through in OMV VM that spins down one disk using APM (disk is used by Plex media server)...
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    VM Internal Disk (ATA) Errors (NFS Share disconnecting?)

    Hey everyone, I have some of my VM Disks on my Unraid NAS on a NFS share, connected via a 10Gbit link; Now, after some time, i started noticing ATA Errors coming up in my Nextcloud VM. It has 2 Disks, one for data and one for the OS. While the VM itself runs fine, the disk for the data...
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    [TUTORIAL] Disk prevent from spinning down because of pvestatd

    Hi, you might have the problem that you want to spin down some disks, but that doesn't work as planned. I just spend 2 hours debugging the problem, and so decided to write this short tutorial. Symptom: You have multiple drives in your proxmox machines, and want some (like all HDDs) to spin down...
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    How to spin down temporarily unused hard drives

    Hi there, I have a small home server with 5 hard drives. 4 of those just contain movies and since I just watch a couple of movies per week it would be ideal to shut the drives down when they are not in use. From what I read, the problem is pvestatd which spins the drives up right after they...
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