Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?
That makes sense.These WD drives I got to sleep automatically after 10m are 2013 Blue desktop drives.The firmware on new ones may behave differently.The Seagate Barracudas in the NAS do respond to a sleep command (hdparm -y) but not any command to change the auto sleep time - they stay spinning forever unless you tell them to stop.I have two brand new 1TB Blue turning up today so will see how they work.
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James B
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Em Qui, 12 Nov ʼ20, às 14:47, Stefan Monnier escreveu:
> > You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although some
> > respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time in WD
> > drives but not Seagate, but both go to sleep when instructed.
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> FWIW, the `hdparm -S` doesn't really work for WD drives last I checked.
> More specifically, IIUC WD drives will mostly disregard the "time to spin
> down" you specify and instead they'll use their own idea of what the
> time to spin down should be based on the power-management level
> you specified.
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> Stefan
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