Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 11:18 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 08:26:58 (+0100), Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> > 007@caiway.net wrote:
> > > with cron:
> > > # prevent disks from sleeping, every minute:
> > > * * * * * /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/
> >
> > Wha not using "hdparm"?
>
> Would you be more specific and include the options you are
> suggesting.
> There are over 60 available, some dangerous.
>
I'm assuming he means -S which sets the standby (spindown) time‐out for
the drive. I use it to force my NAS drives to spin down so the noise
doesn't annoy me. But a timeout of zero will disable spindown.
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Tixy
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