tektite Wrote: > Well, finally, I have a TS-101 in standby! > > Last night I changed the Qnap standby time from 15 mins to 5 mins > (cant imagine that made any difference). Then I cleared the database > and rescanned (dont see why this should make any difference either, > but maybe it has). I disconnected the Ethernet cable and rebooted the > Qnap. Lo and behold, it went into standby! I reconnected the > Ethernet, there was some disk activity (as perhaps youd expect), and > then it went back into standby. Wow! > > This is good news. However, as Andy_W suggests, it would be useful to > know exactly what it is that makes the difference between going into > standby and not.
We all seem to have tried a number of things in a bit of a 'scatter-gun' approach, but the end result appears to be success for everyone... hooray! 1. Change inactivity time to 5 mins. This was definitely a factor when I had older SS versions and Qnap firmware installed. However, the Qnap would only 'sleep' for periods of 5-10 minutes, so perhaps that just happened to be greater that the clock polling time. The test would be if someone who now has standby working to return it to (say 15 mins) and see what happens. 2. SS refresh time. I'm beginning to think that this may have been a bit of a red herring (can't help the fishy references...), so I'll probably put mine back to the default 30s. 3. Set SB standby clock to 'none'. The defining factor for a lot of people. I don't think anyone has standby working without initiating this setting. Does anyone disagree? 4. Clear and rescan database. I fairly sure I didn't do this (I have certainly never used the 'clear' option. But it certainly seems to have worked for some. There may, perhaps, be some residual activity in SS that is stopped or cleared by this process. 5. Reboot Qnap. I obviously did this as part of the Firmware update anyway. I have found that rebooting clears up non-specific drive activity, SS 'hanging' or slow response etc. 6. Install new Qnap firmware (V1.2). I'm still not sure whether this is a factor, but Qnap themselves did say that not going into standby was an identified problem and a fix was part of the firmware, so... All in all it's made a big difference to the average working temperature of my Qnap (it has always run considerably hotter than my Western Digital NAS and Maxtor external sitting alongside it) and (in the current weather) a very noticeable difference to the air temperature in my office. Apart from the obvious energy saving and the probable extension of the life of the drive, I'm now much happier about leaving it running 24 hours a day and even for the extended periods when I'm away. Sweet... Now, if only Qnap would do something about the ridiculous amount of wasted space they use for their banner and logo in the Multimedia Station... -- happyfishman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ happyfishman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2601 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
