Check the readynas forum. I believe this procedure is outlined for any drives that can be adjusted :)
lopaka ________________________________ From: Julian Zottl <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, March 29, 2013 6:23:07 AM Subject: Re: [H] How to turn off 10-minute sleep on Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH166 ? Usually that is a function you find in the bios/raid controller. I've never seen a drive do it in it's own. Julian Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind of way... On Mar 29, 2013, at 7:52 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote: > After rebuilding my system with a new ASUS board, I wanted to upgrade my data >drive to one with more capacity. Since I have a zillion drives around here, I >threw in a Seagate 3TB drive which is the ST3000DM001 model. I've been using >these in my media server as they are inexpensive though I'm now moving on to >the 4TB models. > > Away, the drive is plenty fast. But, it goes the sleep after about 10 > minutes >and it drives me nuts to have to wait on it to wake up. This is not a problem >in >a media server but on an active desktop, it is annoying. > > I know I can go buy a WD Black for $170 or so for 2TB, but is there a way to >configure this drive to not go to sleep or set the sleep interval for a longer >period?
