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EX2 Ultra waking up HDDs while not being accessed

Turns out the culprit is restdsk-server.

It can be disabled through SSH by running (you’ll have to do this after each boot, unfortunately):

restsdk.sh stop

There is another thread talking about it here: Restsdk-server, why is it continually running

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