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I use the Disks application (preinstaled in Ubuntu 18.04) to configure standby timeout of my HDD disk. By using the Drive settings... -> Standby menu I've configured Standby Timeout to 15min. The disk goes into standby after 15min of idle state only if I disable S.M.A.R.T. monitoring by using the SMART Data & Self-Tests menu. By using the sudo hdparm -y /dev/sdb command I can force the disk into standby regardless the SMART monitoring is turned on or off.

I want to have SMART monitoring and Standby timeout both enabled, but the features seem to collide with each other.

Is there any way to fix the problem without excess hacking?

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  • Some HDD have a "spin down when idle" parameter internal to the drive. You can check your drive, and try and set it there.
    – heynnema
    Nov 2, 2018 at 12:37

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You should get a monitoring time greater than your standby timeout. As each request to smart attributes reinit the time out.

If you query your smart attributes every hour, a 15 minutes timeout could occurs. If you query your smart attributes every hour, a 2 hours timeout never occurs.

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  • How to make the monitoring timeout greater than the standby timeout?
    – insaneinvader
    Mar 18, 2019 at 15:21
  • I don't know you tool. Mine is cacti where I could define the time between to control. You should use hdparm to control the disk state in order to do not wake it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdparm I'm not on ubuntu so I can't help more. I just can explain why it occurs.
    – Taryck B.
    Mar 19, 2019 at 19:41

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