frigider  Freshman Member

@"Emerald Dragon" well, thanks for the input, no matter. good luck on your purchases!

@Mijzelf well... since it is not bad to have sleep set to never then the USB drive will not fall asleep either, so i can consider that in a strange twist of faith the problem got itself sorted out :)

@"Emerald Dragon" since you have external HDD did you manage to reliably download and seed torrents from it? i have another topic open on that subject and i find it a nightmare to get it done..

@Wiasouda I am thinking by having sleep mode on i will prolongue the lifespan of my main 2 RAID 1 drives. i would not want them to suffer because of a "stupid", old beat up external HDD..it is not about saving energy (shame on me..)

@Emerald Dragon well, i think you nailed it. the power comes from the NAS via USB as well. So it has a Y cable with 2 usb connectors. It works with just 1 of them but i connect both of them. Very good point to use external power..

IF you set sleep time of HDDs to "never" then the usb hdd does not go into sleep so you solve the "wake up" issue. BUT, i don't want my "enterprise" raid 1 HDDs to never sleep just becasue i want the usb drive to not fall asleep...so.. i think i will ditch the external hdd.

If anyone finds a reliable way of doing this please post here..

i don't know how to "reply" to individuals so here goes: - usb hdd is a WD black, 320Gb older hdd. - yes, after restarting the NAS the usb hdd is visible/accessible again. - NAS model is NAS326 with latest firmware. thank you for your interest.

it works only from time to time, very unreliable... VERY UNRELIABLE.. a true dissapointment

I found out by trial and error that the steps are as follows: set download location to ext drive (i did it for incomplete and complete torrents) copy the .torrent file in the admin/downloads/torrents load the .torrent file from the above mentioned location and now it should work.

*5 looks like it worked somehow but cannot figure out how! (.torrent file needs to be in the external drive as well?? of you need to open it from there? or from admin share??? can't figure it out yet)

****actually the download does not even start, at best you get the downloaded folder created on the external drive but it does not go any farther than this. still working on it. but hopes are at a all time low. for what it's worth - i am using older 320gb hdd, connected to the front port usb. will try to go "in the back"…

***i am so sory for this!!! in the settings of the Download center you can select from the drop-down list the drive you want to download stuff onto!!! PROBLEM SOLVED :hushed:

** i installed Transmission and i can edit the location of the download - default is this one: /etc/zyxel/storage/sysvol/admin/download/Transmission/download which one is the path to the external HDD which is currently named "Mass-Storage-Device-4"? if i can type it correctly then it would probably work, right? i tried…

Ok, i will google that, thank you! What happens if the external drive is removed and that link I create is no longer valid?