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Questions tagged [spindown]

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How can I spin down external hard drive?

I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting. It is an sata drive connected through usb. Running hdparm gives this ry@G62x:/media$ hdparm -S10 937b2299-48ff-4a9c-8228-67ed4453e8fb/ …
winchendonsprings
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Setting SATA HDD spindown time for Western Digital Green drives

I am able to spindown my SATA HDDs by using sudo hdparm -y /dev/sdc The state shown by sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdc changes from active/idle to standby (and I can hear the HDD spin down). However, using sudo hdparm -S5 /dev/sdc doesn't spin down the…
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Automatically spin down USB hard drives after period of inactivity

i'd like to automatically spin down USB hard drives after a period of inactivity, say 15 minutes. And, of course, automatically spin them up again on access. How can i do this? Thanks
Chris
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Unmounted disk still spins up regularly

I just added a disk, with partitions but none of them are mounted. The disk will still spin up every now and then. it goes like this: ### disk spins up hdparm -Y /dev/sdb;date /dev/sdb: issuing sleep command 9 feb 2011 23.37.08 CET ### disk spins…
Erik Johansson
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How do you limit root partition disk access to allow drive to go into standby mode?

When there are no users on my system, I would like the hard disk to spindown to low-power state. I realize that this might not be 100% achievable for a straight 24 hours, but it seems reasonable that the system could remain idle for a few hours at a…
cmcginty
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External drive spins up when Ubuntu suspends

Situation I've got a WD Element Drive that behaves oddly. It took forever for the Drive to spin down, And I'm not able to set the standby (spindown) timeout for the Drive using different methods. For example using hdparm causes SG_IO error: $ sudo…
Ravexina
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Laptop's hard drive doesn't really spin down

I have a new laptop with dual boot to both windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04. While in ubuntu, the laptop gets significantly warmer than in windows. My suspect is the hard drive, because I feel it's especially warm above it, and also I believe I feel its…
Itamar SBL
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Is there a graphical (GUI) front end for hdparm?

Is there a graphical (GUI) front end for hdparm to configure spin down for my hard drives in Ubuntu 11.10?
Roberto Giardina
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SED (self encrpyting disk) is crashing on system resume

I have asked this question before (here and here ) My problem is that my Self Encrypted Disk (SED) have to NOT spin down even on suspend! I have tried this, but it did not work and the disk spin downs anyway ! The problem is that if the disk spins…
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Increase the disk spindown timeout

When my laptop (running Ubuntu 12.04) is on battery, the disk powers off after a few seconds of inactivity — about 20s. I use lightdm to log in, and have some Gnome components running (I have gnome-panel and a number of dependencies), but I use…
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Reducing power consumption of second HDD

I'm getting a laptop tomorrow with an SSD as the primary (operating system) drive, and I will be putting my old laptop's HDD into it as a secondary drive for holding music etc. Since HDDs use power when idle, just to keep themselves spinning, I was…
Sman789
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HDD aggressively spinning down

I have 2 Iron Wolf drives that are aggressively spinning down. I have tried turning on the standby feature in "drive settings". I have also run sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep level and get no output. So I run sudo hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdc and…
Chris
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External usb drive not powering down

I've got an external Seagate HDD hocked up to 18.04 LTS. Unfortunately, even after hours of inactivity the disk will not spin down. Is there a setting in Ubuntu I haven't found to set an inactivity timer to automatically power down the USB drive…
Tom
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Is the HDD spinning when it is unmounted?

Have a PC with multiple HDDs some used only for backup. Should I leave them unmounted? IS the power consumption less when the HDD is unmounted? Do the HDDs spin when unmounted? Thanks a lot
ECII
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How to determine / make sure whether hard-disks have spun down when using "hdparm" options?

I want to spin down some hard-disks when they are idle. So I used hdparm package. In the /etc/hdparm.conf I added following lines: command_line { hdparm -Ss 241 /dev/sda } My intention was to spin down hard disk after 30 minutes of idle time.…
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