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Samsung HD204UI spindown & spinup problem

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Samsung HD204UI spindown & spinup problem

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Yesterday I installed NAS4Free 9 and began to issue from Samsung HD204UI 2TB HDD. After setting the standby for 10 minutes non-stop drive spindown and spinup at intervals of tens of seconds. Do you know any solution to this problem? Moderboard in my configuration is Intel D510MO.
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Re: Samsung HD204UI spindown & spinup problem

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I am using the same drives for 2,5 years now without any issues of this kind.
If you have Advanced Power management enabled, try to disable it (I think this might be the issue)
I am attaching the settings from one of my drives (set to spindown after 30min, works as expected)
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  1. Case: Fractal Design Define R2
  2. M/B: Supermicro x9scl-f
  3. CPU: Intel Celeron G1620
  4. RAM: 16GB DDR3 ECC (2 x Kingston KVR1333D3E9S/8G)
  5. PSU: Chieftec 850w 80+ modular
  6. Storage: 8x2TB HDDs in a RaidZ2 array ~ 10.1 TB usable disk space
  7. O/S: XigmaNAS 11.2.0.4.6625 -amd64 embedded
  8. Extra H/W: Dell Perc H310 SAS controller, crosflashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode, 8GB Innodisk D150SV SATADOM for O/S

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Re: Samsung HD204UI spindown & spinup problem

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In what mode you set the controller in the BIOS - AHCI or Legacy IDE?
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Re: Samsung HD204UI spindown & spinup problem

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I think AHCI, but I am not sure.(not sure if it even has a setting like this...) It is a headless server, installed since freenas 7 days. I haven't touched the BIOS for the past 2-3 years...
I remember that I had similar issues, though, when I first bought the HD204UIs, and the problem was solved by disabling APM. Did you try it?
My Nas
  1. Case: Fractal Design Define R2
  2. M/B: Supermicro x9scl-f
  3. CPU: Intel Celeron G1620
  4. RAM: 16GB DDR3 ECC (2 x Kingston KVR1333D3E9S/8G)
  5. PSU: Chieftec 850w 80+ modular
  6. Storage: 8x2TB HDDs in a RaidZ2 array ~ 10.1 TB usable disk space
  7. O/S: XigmaNAS 11.2.0.4.6625 -amd64 embedded
  8. Extra H/W: Dell Perc H310 SAS controller, crosflashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode, 8GB Innodisk D150SV SATADOM for O/S

Backup Nas: U-NAS NSC-400, Gigabyte MB10-DS4 (4x4TB Seagate Exos disks in RaidZ configuration - 32GB RAM)
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Re: Samsung HD204UI spindown & spinup problem

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It is not well with this HDD. In settings such as in your disk does not turn off after a set time in both modes AHCI and IDE. In addition, a firmware is 1AQ10001, which can cause errors when using smartctl. I was unable to load the new firmware version by using F4EG tool.
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