Hi guys,
I have the following setup with a complete fresh installation (from scratch):
- Installed Proxmox as host OS
- Created TrueNAS as VM (based on ISO of TrueNAS-13.0-U6.1) with two 2 TB HDDs (directly connected to the SATA ports on the mainboard) as a physical passthrough via
qm set [VM_ID] -scsi[1 and 2] /dev/disk/by-id/[1 and 2]with the following HDD-IDs:
1: ata-WDC_WD20PURX-64PFUY0_WD-WCC4M1DUK35P
2: ata-WDC_WD20PURX-64PFUY0_WD-WCC4M5KNCZLT
Afterwards I added a new RAID1 Pool under Storage : Pools:
I configured both disks like this (HDD Standby 5 Min, Force HDD Standby):
The 5 Min is only for testing purposes and will be expanded when everything is working properly.
Further I moved the System Dataset in System : System Dataset from the generated raid1-2tb pool to the boot-pool (following this post):
My goal is:
Using the RAID1 as NFS in other Proxmox-VMs to rsync data to it as backup.
By now the HDDs don’t spin down (at least according to my power consumption monitor). Since they’re gonna run only for a few minutes to hours a day, I’d like to put them to standby in order to reduce power consumption.
What am I doing wrong and how can I achieve my goal?
Many thanks in advance!