Why isn't hard disk spin down working?

[heehee62]

I have a portable Buffalo HD-PNTU3 hard drive attached to one of my asus rt-ac66u usb ports (printer attached to the other one).

I went to tools/other settings and set hard disk spin down time to 3600s.

Why isn't my hard drive spinning down after being idle for 1 hr?

Thanks a lot. Loving my asus router and merlin so far.

 

[GoNz0]

either it doesn't support spindown or somethings waking it up in less than 59 minutes!

 

[heehee62]

Thank. Bummer.

What inexpensive USB 3.0 hard drives support disk spin down?

 

[TonyH]

Hi,
Some times it is f/w issue for the hard drive. What brand HD is in the box? Checked if there is f/w update for the drive?

 

[Nerre]

Start with setting the timeout lower to see if the disk supports spin down.

 

[heehee62]

I lowered the amount of idle time before shutdown and this time my hard drive did spin down.

Weird. I must have activated it somehow. Problem solved.

Thanks everyone.

 

[GoNz0]

it will be the operating system polling the network, tbh 5 mins is plenty for most nas drives

 

[steve7929]

Is the spin down option available on any Merlin firmware for ac68u as well?

 

[RMerlin]

Is the spin down option available on any Merlin firmware for ac68u as well?

All my supported platforms have this option.

 

[Amaj7]

If DM is installed on HDD it won't let it spindown even if disabled.

 

[heehee62]

All my supported platforms have this option.

THANK YOU RMerlin for your platforms.

I have no idea why asus doesn't add hard disk spin down to their routers themselves - especially with all their "aicloud" stuff they promote. I'm very thankful for all your add-ons.