WD My Book Live Standby issues

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
#1

Hello,

I have several standby issues with my WD My Book Live (latest firmware)

  1. Wakes up over night without any reason even when there is nothing switched on except the My Book and the rooter.

  2. Always wakes up when I boot my PC or I wake up my PC from standby

  3. When my PC (Win8) is running the My Book Live almost never enters standby even there is no file access or mapping from the PC. If the My Book Live enters standby then it doesn’t stay there very long.

Does everybody has these issues? How can I solve it?

#2

Chances are it is indexing your media.

Do some searches on this forum as this topic has been covered quite a bit. There are also different solutions. It will all depend on your needs.

Here are some:

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/Runaway-mediacrawler-The-Ultimate-Solution/m-p/578720/highlight/true#M23756

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/MBL-works-fine-Green-Light-blinking-forever/m-p/572801/highlight/true#M22925

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/MBL-Sleep-Mode-and-firmware-02-32-05-046/td-p/523307

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/Blinking-Green-Light/m-p/577282/highlight/true#M23578

#3

if you have any mappings that had “reconnect at login” checked, it may be checking the folder when you wake up.  You should delete that map, and remap without checking that box.

#4

StefanS wrote:

Hello,

 

I have several standby issues with my WD My Book Live (latest firmware)

 

  1. Wakes up over night without any reason even when there is nothing switched on except the My Book and the rooter.
  1. Always wakes up when I boot my PC or I wake up my PC from standby
  1. When my PC (Win8) is running the My Book Live almost never enters standby even there is no file access or mapping from the PC. If the My Book Live enters standby then it doesn’t stay there very long.

 

Does everybody has these issues? How can I solve it?

  1. The MBL runs Cron jobs every night.  I think they launch at 3:00AM, IIRC.

  2. Yep, your PC (if it’s windows) queries every Samba system periodically to see what it can discover to see what it is and if there’s any guest access (which there is.)   Most NAS systems “wake up” when such connections are made.

  3. Same as #2.

#5

TonyPh12345 wrote:

StefanS wrote:

Hello,

 

I have several standby issues with my WD My Book Live (latest firmware)

 

  1. Wakes up over night without any reason even when there is nothing switched on except the My Book and the rooter.

  2. Always wakes up when I boot my PC or I wake up my PC from standby

  3. When my PC (Win8) is running the My Book Live almost never enters standby even there is no file access or mapping from the PC. If the My Book Live enters standby then it doesn’t stay there very long.

 

Does everybody has these issues? How can I solve it?

  1. The MBL runs Cron jobs every night.  I think they launch at 3:00AM, IIRC.
  1. Yep, your PC (if it’s windows) queries every Samba system periodically to see what it can discover to see what it is and if there’s any guest access (which there is.)   Most NAS systems “wake up” when such connections are made.
  1. Same as #2.

 

 

Actually I have only one file on the NAS as it is new and no mapped drives.

But when my PC queries every Samba system periodically, in my opinion this is no reason that the NAS spins up the drive. Can this be changed?

#6

StefanS wrote:> Actually I have only one file on the NAS as it is new and no mapped drives.> But when my PC queries every Samba system periodically, in my opinion this is no reason that the NAS spins up the drive. Can this be changed?

Well, the file system is on the disk itself.  Most of the Samba lock & password files are on the disk, so it’s going to have to read them.

My QNAP NASes behave the same way.   It’s always been a mystery to me.

But ultimately, does it really matter if your drive spins up?  Or are you just “Tilting at Windmills,” so to speak? :wink:

#7

This is the log of today. Actually I didn’t use the MBL at all. To be honest why should the HDD be on, if I do not need it.

Doesn’t it keep all Samba related configs in the RAM?

Do you know a NAS which does not behave like this?

Aug 11 03:00:08 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 5577 (since 2013-08-11 01:27:11.353556046 +0200)
Aug 11 08:54:40 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 20066 (since 2013-08-11 03:20:14.813556055 +0200)
Aug 11 10:37:00 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 4934 (since 2013-08-11 09:14:46.949556328 +0200)
Aug 11 10:49:46 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 163 (since 2013-08-11 10:47:03.641556029 +0200)
Aug 11 11:10:23 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 31 (since 2013-08-11 11:09:52.597555483 +0200)
Aug 11 11:55:18 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 283 (since 2013-08-11 11:50:35.953556073 +0200)
Aug 11 12:56:00 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 3039 (since 2013-08-11 12:05:21.473554900 +0200)
Aug 11 14:13:40 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 4057 (since 2013-08-11 13:06:03.729556464 +0200)
Aug 11 15:14:52 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 3069 (since 2013-08-11 14:23:43.465555328 +0200)
Aug 11 16:01:48 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 2213 (since 2013-08-11 15:24:55.469555674 +0200)
Aug 11 16:45:40 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 2029 (since 2013-08-11 16:11:51.465554832 +0200)
Aug 11 16:56:12 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 29 (since 2013-08-11 16:55:43.585556766 +0200)

#8

StefanS wrote:

Doesn’t it keep all Samba related configs in the RAM?

Heck no.   If it did, it’d be erased whenever the power went out.

#9

TonyPh12345 wrote:

StefanS wrote:

Doesn’t it keep all Samba related configs in the RAM?

Heck no.   If it did, it’d be erased whenever the power went out.

 

Does this mean, that every NAS would stay awake as long as any PC is running in the network?

Can’t believe it, to be honest I don’t know what Samba always want to write to the disk?

The questions for me is to keep the MBL or to go for another NAS?