Hello there
I want to reduce the consumption of my server and so, to reduce access to hard drives
But I suspect mdadm to access the drives frequently and wake them up.
Because even when the drives are not mounted, they wake up frequently and I can’t find the reason.
Because the are not mounted, it’s not due to a process.
I’ve temporarily disabled smartd so it’s not that.
remains the software raid, who can potentially do regular checks, if that’s the case how to fix it?
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ps: I know spin down/up isn’t good
I have 2x it hdd’s in software raid with mdadm which I use as my backup storage. My server mounts the array, writes the backup, unmounts the array, spins down the disks and puts them to sleep completely automatically every night at 1am. They never wake or spin up at all during the day.