Hard drive constantly spinning up and down
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I have a fresh install on an i5 system with an ASUS main board. The harddrive is constantly spinning up and down every 10sec or so. I had set the harddrive time out in the advanced settings section of the config to 60min, just out of curiosity, but I'm not sure if it was doing it before that or not. I have it set to Always On now, but it still is acting up. SMART test passes. Is there a way to reset hard drive settings/driver without having to start from scratch?
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10 seconds is insane. If this a laptop drive? These days HD vendors have disabled user-set sleep values, are you using the original supplied util to configure this timer? because a generic util may no longer work. Older WD (green/blue?) drives used to have a very short sleep timer (but never as short as 10s) and they released a config util to lengthen this to 300s.
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Haven't used any utilities other than the option within the pfSense configuration, which is set to "Always On" now.
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Well then pfsense is not interfering. I doubt BSD has anything to do with it either. I suspect the drive's own internals.
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I have seen systems do that and not found a useful way to prevent it.
To work around it I have moved /var and /tmp to RAM drives. The drive remains spun down almost always after that. There are drawbacks to that or course, you will lose logs if there is an unexpected reboot.
Steve
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I think I'll try just replacing the drive first.
