Re: Hard Drive Spin Down
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:16:33PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
> Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun
> down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :(
Over the years I've tried to sort this out without success. I'd suggest
an external enclosure (eSATA?) so you can unmount, and actually turn off
when you don't need it. I don't know what happens to debian if you turn
off an eSATA-connected drive though. USB should be fine but then you
may not get SMART notification (see a recent thread).
Of course, there's always good'ol SCSI.
Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called
someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup
over rsync or NFS, and turn it off. If it does wake-on-lan you could
script it all from your main computer.
Doug.
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