Lenovo Iomega 70A29000EA - does Twonky block spin-down of drives

Hi team,
I am concerned that my NAS never spins down the drives (current setting is 15 mins), can you please advise on how I can check if it does and whether the twonky settings or remote access (I am not using the personal cloud but I access it through my static ip) somehow affect that?
I always thought that the NAS will go to sleep and wake-on-lan or soemthing whenever accessed remotely
thanks
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Hello tournas
Having Twonky (media server) enabled on the NAS or linking the NAS to a desktop version of Twonky server can cause the energy savings configuration to be ignored.
Normally personal cloud would also cause the same situation, however if you have not configured your device for personal cloud or have your cloud disabled there should not be a problem. Manually connecting via the external ip would not affect the energy savings.
Other items to check on this would be Active folders from the Shares page and Torrents(transmission). If those options are enabled and or in use they could prevent the energy savings to work.
In some cases having shares mapped/mounted to a client desktop/workstation can prevent the energy savings from working as well. You may also want to try cycling all of the protocols off/on in case a protocol happens to be malfunctioning.
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