Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) in GUI available?

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Hi

My 2x 12 TB Disks in Ugreen DXP2800-C754 are loud. A web search told me to activate Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM).

smartctl -s on /dev/ada0
hdparm -M 128 /dev/ada0

and also Advanced Power Management (APM)hdparm -B 128 /dev/ada0

Can I do this also in Web UI?
I didn’t found it.

Thanks

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TrueNAS CORE used to have all of this available in Storage > Disks. Seems like here is another feature removed from CE … :frowning_face:

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When I log in to the console, I get this message:

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Should I still execute the commands in the original post? Thank you.

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The commands make changes directly to the drives, not to ZFS. So these should be fine.

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WD Red Plus 12 TB, 3.5", CMR

root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# smartctl -s on /dev/sda1

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.12.33-production+truenas] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART Enabled.

root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# smartctl -s on /dev/sdb1

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.12.33-production+truenas] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART Enabled.

root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# hdparm -M 128 /dev/sda1


/dev/sda1:
 setting acoustic management to 128
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  f0 00 05 04 53 40 80 0a 00 00 00 00 26 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 acoustic      = not supported
root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# hdparm -M 128 /dev/sdb1


/dev/sdb1:
 setting acoustic management to 128
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  f0 00 05 04 53 40 80 0a 00 00 00 00 26 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 acoustic      = not supported
root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# hdparm -B 128 /dev/sda1


/dev/sda1:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x80 (128)
 APM_level      = 128
root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]# hdparm -B 128 /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb1:
 setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x80 (128)
 APM_level      = 128
root@truenas[/home/truenas_admin]#

I get “acoustic = not supported”
What do do with loud disks?

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  • Place them somewhere where they don’t bother you.
  • Buy quieter ones.

These are the quick home environment solutions. Of course there are noise dampening 19” cabinets. We used to have one of these in our last office where we did not have a dedicated server room. Probably overkill but I don’t know your environment and budget.

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