If you use a small PC as Home Server NAS with a attached USB Drive you perhaps remark that the drive ALWAYS spinning if the Samba Daemon is active. I researched this behavior and found out that the Samba Deamon (smbd) locks the drive access via VFS to the Kernel for the Powermanagement Tools like […]
Tag: Spindown
Hardware Bugs: Seagate ST3000DM001 9YN166 3TB Drives Click Noise
Problem: My brand new Seagate Drives running as Raid1 with two Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 on Debian clicks sometimes. Background: Noise is made by parking heads and spin control by the firmware, often seen on Home NAS (Update 2017: The Firmware of this Generation is buggy, Fault rate 70% after 2 Years) Solution: go to Manufacter Site […]