Schumaku
You seem to be in some sort of minor denial about this. I don't doubt that your systems work fine. I am happily prepared to fully believe you when you say that they do.
Some people's systems do not work. You do not seem prepared to believe that this is the case.
1) I have followed the blkdevmonitor process and I have emailed results directly to someone at QNAP. They advised that I need to turn all the services off. This contradicts the results you get but there you go, advice straight from the supplier. I have also unplugged the network cable and it made no difference. Still no spin down. What network service could possibly be keeping the hard disks from spinning down if the network is not actually connected? So I stand by the view that this aspect of the QNAP is defective
2) Call it a rant if you want. Probably is. Not unreasonably. I spent $1000 or something on a box that doesn't do what it says. More to the point it is a known problem that lots of other people have and it's not getting any attention
3) OK it's a community forum. But QNAP people frequently post on it. And I asked that specifically to respond to this thread
4) Two points. One - i don't think that having to shut down the bulk of the functionality should really amount to a troubleshooting process but I take your point that you would do this to localise the problem. I have done it. Others have done it. It didn't localise the problem. Two - you are missing the point of the statement, the key thing here is how come some people have this problem while others are running all sorts of services on their box and do not
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