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Okay, thanks for the explanation! So, without any workarounds, it's probably not possible to achieve completely silent operation of HDDs, and the periodic scraping/ticking sound I shared in the audio recording in the original post is unavoidable under normal circumstances? I don't remember exactly ...

Thanks for your response! Could you please first confirm whether it’s actually possible to avoid having OS redundancy partitions on the HDDs altogether? I want all OS activity to take place exclusively on the SSD, with no access to or activity on the HDDs - aside from regular storage access, of cou...

EDIT: The drive isn’t failing, by the way. What I’m saying is that there’s constant activity on the HDD, and I want to prevent that - just like it was possible in TOS 5, where you could force the system to use only the SSD (with some workarounds), even if TOS partitions existed on all the drives.

So, I made the mistake of changing a stable system (stable meaning, quiet, except under load) - silly me. My problem and question(s): I wanted TOS 6 installed only on the SSD, so I removed all HDDs before booting the NAS and completing the initialization. Installation on the SSD went fine. I then sh...