Please implement USB HDD Spindown!
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Please implement USB HDD spindown.
Those of us who use NAS capabilities of your routers could really benefit from saving the lives of these drives and not wear out by spinning 24/7.
It makes no sense to not have this feature in 2021 With 2 usb 3.0 and type c ported routers.
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By HDD spindown, do you refer to standby mode? The AX6000 doesn't support the USB standby feature you are requesting.
Just out of curiosity, do you know any other brand that supports this feature, we may feedback to the R & D engineers to check?
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@Kevin_Z ASUS Routers do.
You can see under tech specs hdd hibernation.
https://www.asus.com/in/Networking-IoT-Servers/WiFi-Routers/ASUS-WiFi-Routers/RT-AX3000/techspec/
It would be great to have this feature on this router.
In fact the hdd I'm using on this router did sleep on my previous Netgear r6300V2 router as well. But I was using FreshTomato on it. But I had not specifically enabled any setting for it.
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By HDD spindown, do you refer to standby mode? The AX6000 doesn't support the USB standby feature you are requesting.
Just out of curiosity, do you know any other brand that supports this feature, we may feedback to the R & D engineers to check?
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@Nikhchan I just bought a C4000, which is older AC model and it does spin down my attached WD easystore 5TB. The easystore is USB powered in case it matters.
I verified this by putting my hand on the drive and not feeling any vibrations and the drive was cold to the touch. Also the LED was blinking slowly rather than solid.
Now, it could be that this is a feature of the drive itself and the router has nothing to do with it.
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@eltee yes it seems, WD drives have this feature baked into the firmware. You can use a WD app to disable enable & Increase, decrease the time before sleep. So does the HDD start up if you try to access it via Samba or Media server? Have you checked if your router model has this festure?
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