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While mounted /dev/sda wakes up the instant spin down command is sent. Nothing is using the drive. How do I prevent it from waking up?

I installed a new drive into headless Ubuntu 22.04 server today. Am trying to schedule the drive to spin down when not in use. The issue is that the drive wakes up less than a second after being put ...
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How to troubleshoot hdparm?

I'm setting up a NAS, and I would like the HDs to spin down when I am not doing anything (i.e., most of the time), but I am having trouble realising this with hdparm. I can spin down the HDs manually, ...
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How to get a newly created EXT4 filesystem to finish writing the index node immediatly?

I newly created an ext4 1TB partition, but I could not spin down the Hard disk on which the partition is mounted without unmounting first because the disk is having some activity every about 2s. I did ...
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Prevent USB HDD from spindown

I am fairly new to Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and I am in need of a little assistance. I am looking for a way to prevent my USB HDDs from spinning down, because they are fairly old and slow and it really ...
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Laptop-mode-tools and hard disk

I use laptop-mode-tools to save battery on my Asus TUF A17. I works fine but not for the hard disk : this one is going too much to sleep and wake up after every 10 seconds. So the Load_Cycle_Count is ...
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My media storage HDD is constantly spinning in my laptop even when I'm not using that

My laptop has two drives: An SSD for the operating system (Kubuntu 20.10) and an HDD for media storage. Under windows my HDD only spins up when it's necessary but under linux it's spinning constantly ...
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How to spindown external drive on ubuntu 20.04

I have an external Seagate Backup plus hard-drive that gets automatically mounted on system boot, however the hard-drive does not get automatically spundown/powerdown with the system is shutdown. I ...
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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 ...
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hdparm.conf has no effect in 20.04 [closed]

I recently did a clean install of 20.04 on my server. In 18.04, I could spin down my mechanical drive with this line in hdparm.conf: /dev/sda { spindown_time = 25 } Now, the config file doesn't ...
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gnome-disk-utility or hdparm to spin down hdd permanently → issues

I used to use this hdparm -Y /dev/sda under KDE to spin down hdd disk but this stopped to work as disk started to spin up by itself, I couldn't find a way to correct this by using other hdparm ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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How to Change HDD Spin-Down Time in Xubuntu [duplicate]

I'm a new Ubuntu user. I use an old Toshiba notebook(which got a HDD manufactured by Toshiba) for work and recently installed Xubuntu in it. This old Toshiba HDD has overheating problem so after ...
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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
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Run script as root immediately after login to gui

Because of some reason, my harddrives spin up after I log in to my account. In rc.local is a hdparm -y /dev/sda (sda is my Data Raid that is never mounted in linux, only used for video cutting in ...
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1:1 mirror script with rsync? And do disks spin down by default?

My old NAS crashed and I don't want to use a Hardware RAID controller any more so I created my first server with Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. It's running on a SSD and stores my data on 2×3TB WD Red ...
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HDD spin down time is not working after sleep

I have two hard drives - ssd and hdd. I don't use hdd a lot, so I have set hdd spin down time for 5 minutes (in Disks app). And it's working quite fine if Ubuntu was started from completely turned off ...
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Why is my non-system HDD cannot spin down?

My non-system (/media) HDD unfortunatly wakes up from sleep after around 1-2 min. I tried to investigate which process could request an access to hdd while sleep with the help of thes thread: https://...
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hdparm will not set spindown for disks 14.04 server

I have 4 HDD, one WD and 3 Identical generic brands. I have edited /etc/rc.local to change hdparm -B to 127 for the 3 generic drives (WD is unsupported and probably handles itslef) and -S to 180 for ...
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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 ...
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HDD spindown on 14.04LTS

I can't get my drives (SEAGATE 750MB, Western Digital 1TB & Western Digital 500GB) to spindown on 14.04LTS. I have added the following lines on hdparm.conf which worked fine on 12.04LTS ...
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CX usb3 2.5-hdd-case asm1051 wont spindown/detach on ubuntu 12.04

bought this device http://www.ebay.de/itm/281128589294?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 it mount and unmount the partitions on the drive smart is also supported the only thing ...
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How to cache (more) data on SSD/RAM to avoid spin up?

I have Ubuntu server 12.04 running on a 40GB SSD with a raid 5 mounted for media files. I access the files often via samba either with a Raspberry Pi for music playback or with another PC for the ...
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Is there a tool that will tell me why my hard drive is spinning up?

I have my OS installed on a small SSD and most of my data on a large HDD. My HDD will spin up every fifteen minutes or so even if I am not doing anything. I want to find out who is causing it to spin ...
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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-...
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Setting SATA HDD spindown time for Western Digital Green drives [duplicate]

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? [duplicate]

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 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?
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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 937b2299-48ff-4a9c-...
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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 ...
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