Tuning Seagate Exos drive for use in an unRAID
by Logan Rogers-Follis on May.04, 2024, under Techie
When buying a Seagate Exos hard drive you will need to check the status / turn off EPC before using it in an unRAID server. From my reading, leaving EPC enabled can cause the drives to get a S.M.A.R.T. failure because of too many on/off cycles.
Below are the steps needed to check/disable EPC and prevent this potential problem. They can be found many places on the Internet and I just want them posted here so I can look them up quickly in the future.
- Install SeaChest tools CLI
- Launch Seachest from start menu
- Seachest_PowerControl_x64_windows.exe -s (NOTE: to list drives, make note of PD# of drive you want to flash)
- SeaChest_PowerControl_x64_windows.exe -d PD2 –EPCfeature disable (NOTE: replace PD2 with the number of the drive you want to flash)
- SeaChest_PowerControl_x64_windows.exe -d PD2 –powerBalanceFeature disable
- SeaChest_PowerControl_x64_windows.exe -d PD2 –showEPCSettings (NOTE: All should read 0; this means it is disabled)
