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How can I find out whether my hard drives ever spin down?
I want to know whether, over the course of a typical week, my hard drives ever spin down. I'd like to know how often this happens, and at what times.
Where can I find this information, or how can I ...
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How can I find out the current drive spin-down time?
I'm interested in manually adjusting my hard drives' spin-down times with hdparm -S to make them quieter at night. The first thing I need to know is what their current spin-down times are, to use as a ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64bits Hdd Spin Down Time
I've reverted back from 12.10 and I see that there's no option as per subject in the Disk utility provided with version 12.04. Is that confirmed and I've to manage this with the hdparm or am I missing ...
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Good spindown for HDD on Media/NAS server
I am running a small media server that also doubles as a NAS drive in my house. I use it to host my Plex library along with my Subsonic library for Roku and my Droid's. It's a real simple ATOM server ...
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Where did the “Safe Removal” in the Disks (Disk Utility) application go in 12.10?
In the Disk Utility in 12.04, there is a "Safe Removal" option for removable hard drives.
In the equivalent Disks utility in 12.10, this option has disappeared.
Where did it go? How do I safely ...
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find out which process wakes my hard drive from sleep state
I have an external drive connected to my computer, I want this drive to be in sleep mode unless i'm executing some backup tool.
For some reason, after 14 minutes I think, the hard drive always wakes ...
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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 ...
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Will computer being shut down due to power failure affect my system files, or speed in any way? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How resilient is Ubuntu to repeated “power-off” shutdowns?
I've asked before as well but need to confirm again, in my country there are a lot of electricity ...
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is it true that ubuntu effect on hdd longevity?
is it true that "Ubuntu May Be Killing my Laptop's Hard Drive"?? Please explain(if possible).
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/10/30/1742258/ubuntu-may-be-killing-your-laptops-hard-drive
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Put HDDs in standby after X minutes using hdparm doesn't work
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on a home server. There are 5 hard drives: one SSD with the OS and 4 HDDs (Samsung HD204UI) configured as a RAID5 using mdadm.
I don't need the RAID very often (say, about once per ...
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How can I turn off hard disk power management in 12.04?
In Ubuntu 12.04 the power management does not allow control of hard disk spinning preferences. As a result, when the laptop is on battery the hard disk continues to stop spinning to save power.
I ...
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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
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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 ...
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Enabling the power management for SATA link [duplicate]
After tearing down my laptop, I came to know that most of the heating issue in my laptop is caused by HDD. Powertop is also showing the same problem. I am seeing significantly cooling after activating ...
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How can I control HDD spin down time?
I have 2 HDDs in my PC. Ubuntu is turning off the secondary HDD very quickly after about 15 minutes, which is short for me. I need to control this time. How can I do it?
I tried GNOME power ...
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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 ...
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Are there tools to manage the power management for HDD?
I wonder if there are a better tool than the panel at System → Preferences → Power Management to manage the power consumption for the HDD. Specifically HDD in a laptop.
