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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 ...
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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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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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Setting SATA HDD spindown time
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, ...
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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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How to change harddrive spindown time?
if I run my notebook on battery mode, ubuntu spindown my hardrive every few seconds. How can I fix that?
I have tried it with sudo hdparm -S 127 /dev/sda* but I am not able to disable the spindown ...
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Is there really no option (GUI) to hdparm for spinning down hard drives?
Is there a graphical (GUI) front end for hdparm to spin down hard drives in ubuntu 11.10?
Thanks, Roberto
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
