Somebody clearly needs a life…
There was a bug in samba 4.0 that would update the browse.dat file every few seconds or so. This
would cause the drive to wake up. This problem was fixed in a later version of samba. But WD has
not updated samba over the last two years.
A way to get around the problem is to use the following command.
mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /dev/root /
This basically says not to write to disk when a inode is accessed.
I completely understand where you are coming from, and I’ve notified our online services team to look into this and consider implementing something. Thank you for pursuing this to point it out clearly and fully.
