Power Management

[bouncemeister]

A good power management feature would be nice.

The unit never turns off the harddrive or the fan, so there is no sleep function at all. For a NAS device of this price range, i would expect a working sleep function.

(Firmware 1.0.0.6, Seagate 7200.10 500Gb harddisk)

[r32190]

You can use /sbin/hdparm to set the spin-down time.
But you must connect serial port to set.

See
thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=n1200wishlist&action=display&thread=1172615001

Besides, you must shut down some apps, otherwise, it will spin up right away.

hdparm is not reliable for SATA. For setting standby time, should be good enough.

[madmanfree]

Yes a better fan management would be nice. 2.5inch drive in mine and the thing does not even get warm. The fan should go down to a quiet level. At the moment my n1200 is in the living room. As soon as I get chance its getting put in the attic and as far away from me as possible. The thing is far to d**n noisy!

[appleman1234]

I may write a module for better fan control, and I currently have a Gentoo chroot on my N1200, I will see if I can switch environments and get cpu frequency scaling working.

As for a sleep function it will depend what power saving options the mpc83xx board supports in the datasheet.