Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?
Sorry it's 'hdparm -S' to set sleep time, not small s!
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James B
portoteacher80@fastmail.com
Em Qui, 12 Nov ʼ20, às 12:25, James B 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. I
> have an old Iomega ix2-200 running Arch ARM.I use 'hdparm' to instruct
> the drives to sleep for exactly the same reasons as you.
>
> The package is 'hdparm' in Debian.Simply (as root) enter 'hdparm -y
> /dev/sdx to manually put the drive to sleep.
>
> I believe 'hdparm -s ' allows you to set the sleep time, but the
> options will be shown to you if you enter 'hdparm -h'
>
> Hope that helps!
>
>
> --
> James B
> portoteacher80@fastmail.com
>
> Em Qui, 12 Nov ʼ20, às 12:18, Thomas Anderson escreveu:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array).
> >
> > The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my
> > local network.
> >
> > They are not constantly accessed, and performance/speed is irrelevant.
> >
> > I would rather they idle/sleep when not being directly accessed. I know
> > they are supposed to spin, and spinning them up and down is not good for
> > them. But, in my particular use case, it seems acceptable.
> >
> > Am I off base?
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a way to do this in debian? Is there a program that
> > will allow me to set this?
> >
> >
>
>
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