OWC Thunderbay keeps waking up during sleep

[Rockadile]

I just got a OWC Thunderbay 4 and within 15mins it will wake up and stay turned on while it keeps spinning & stopping the HDD every couple minutes despite the computer being asleep. Turned off wake for network access. Preventing HDD sleep or not has no change either. Anything I'm missing here?

Thunderbay power LED is a slow, blue pulse when computer is asleep. The manual doesn't have any info on this. I think it should be solid amber like when the computer is off.

 

[type311]

I have the same problem and have to turn off the drives at night because of how noisy the platters can be.

 

[lcubed]

i would contact OWC or look on the soft raid support forums.

 

[Rockadile]

I have the same problem and have to turn off the drives at night because of how noisy the platters can be.

Does your power LED turn amber or blue pulse?

i would contact OWC or look on the soft raid support forums.

I'm using it as JBOD so I didn't think to look on their support forum.
There's indeed a thread that's already talking about the same issue:

Thunderbays spin up/down behavior - too frequent, long delay...

Assuming this is the correct forum for this issue, if this winds up being a Mac OS / Monterey issue or a hardware issue with OWC, please let me know w...

forums.softraid.com

It seems to be a Monterey issue.

 

[phrehdd]

Has anyone put a dock between the M1 and the Thunderbay? Did the same problem still happen?

 

[gsartori]

I just got a OWC Thunderbay 4 and within 15mins it will wake up and stay turned on while it keeps spinning & stopping the HDD every couple minutes despite the computer being asleep. Turned off wake for network access. Preventing HDD sleep or not has no change either. Anything I'm missing here?

Thunderbay power LED is a slow, blue pulse when computer is asleep. The manual doesn't have any info on this. I think it should be solid amber like when the computer is off.

I had the same problem until yesterday when I upgraded to Ventura and the problem went away. I cameb to the home-office this morning the everything was asleep. Another problem though, now the thunderbay disks goo to sleep too frequently if if a seach for a file they take time to wake up

 

[Rockadile]

I had the same problem until yesterday when I upgraded to Ventura and the problem went away. I cameb to the home-office this morning the everything was asleep. Another problem though, now the thunderbay disks goo to sleep too frequently if if a seach for a file they take time to wake up

Are the disk still going to sleep despite check-marking prevent HDD sleep?

I know that WD disk utilities has an option to configure HDD sleep but I don't think it works on bare drives, only ones in an enclosure sold as external drives. You may want to check your HDD brand's software for the equivalent feature.