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External hard drive restarts after spindown
When I click 'safely remove' on my external hard drive it doesn't work compared to when using flash drives. I saw a solution to spindown an external hard drive here and it works; I can hear the click ...
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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 ...
