Spin down spins the drive down so you can determine if noise in a system is caused by the drive or by something else. I have an asus h97me motherboard and on the asus website the official driver is 14. I would like to change that setting to 10 minutes at least. But obviously, there may be large amounts of time when it is not in use, so id like to make it check to see if it is in use say every hour or so and if it isnt, spin down. I think its worthy of note that the i often hear the drive power down and up, sometimes the down is followed immediately by an up but it always spins all the way down before spinning up. May 07, 2020 values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. I didnt reboot but i also have an udev rule which executes this command but when i do hdparm y devsda it works perfectly. I found this thread with the same issue and still no answerfix. I need a function i can call at a specific moment in time when im using my laptop, not something generic that doesnt suit 95% of situations. You can safely unmount and spindown an external hard disk from the terminal most easily by using the commandline functionality of udisks, which does not require the use of sudo if your system is set up correctly. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks. I have a usb boot device and 4 hard disks in a zfs pool. Drives western digital sdc to sdf is my raid 5 array.
From hdparms man page on the cli parameter s put the drive into idle lowpower mode, and also set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. Time to make hdparm configurations permanent edit the configuration file. Such drives can be spun down using hdidle which ships with a systemd service. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spin down features under linux.
Whats the effect of standby spindown mode on modern hard. It turned out that the hdd i wanted to spin down doesnt support apm and that with my secondary hdd it works perfectly. I wrote a little shell script to check the activity on the hdd and do a spin down after 20 minutes without activity. How can i find out the current drive spindown time. We once had to shut our server room down for the air conditioner to be repaired it was scheduled maintenance. Next, scroll down to the bottom and then press the insert key once this will take us into edit mode and. Kde will now safely spin down external hard drives when. Presumably, you have decided that the hard disk on your system either consumes too much power, or is too noisy, so you would like to keep it spun down when not in use. But it appears that the esxi accesses the hdds every 30 min, because the automatic spin down only works with an idle time less then 30 min. I have a 1tb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 10 minutes of inactivity. For some other drives, the hdparm command is acknowledged but the drive do not respect the parameters either apm or spin down timer. Put the drive into idle lowpower mode, and also set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. Automatic disk standby using kernel diskstats and hdparm. How to spin down some hard drives windows 10 forums.
Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard. Topic 1 was for one out of my 3 different toshiba hdds not running out of the box, i. But i want an automatic spin down after 2 hours of idle. Take wd spindown or stop utility for a spin to see how useful it can actually be for you. Researchers have proposed several spindown algorithms that can efficiently reduce hard disk power consumption 5 678. Ive looked at this but im a raspbian linux noob and would appreciate any advice. In storage disks i set the hdd standby to 20 minutes and the adv. Hi i have 2 drives connected to my cuboxi 4pro imx6. This short 5sec spindownsleep, whatever you call it, is not normal, and will certainly cause hdd damage. Spin down idle hard drive raspberry pi stack exchange. Erase write same this is a faster especially for usb drives version of erase. I have a system with an ssd containing my os opensuse and a lot of my data as well as a traditional spinning hard drive with extra data. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard disk. Gentoo spins it down each ten minutes which leads to wearing out the disk spindle and moreover, waiting for the drive to spin up each time is inconvenient.
Im using xfce and been trying to find a solution to automatically spin down my hdd hard drive for some time now. The define idle spin down times between 30 minutes and 5. If i do hdparm y devsdg devsdh the drives spin down but after 25 minutes they become active again. I dont often access the data on the spinning hard drive so would like to be able to spin it down to both make it quieter and use less energy. But now, i want to start the script automatical with cron, using this command. Im trying to spin down my hdd after 10 minutes so i did hdparm s 120 devsda but it doesnt spin down. How to use seatools bootable seagate support asean.
I have the same problem on my banana pro but it worked before. Talking about sata disks, the former is the most possible reason. By default windows 10 will power down hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity or if the computer is a laptop, 10 minutes when on battery. What is the spindown time how long does it take to go into powersaving spindown mode for the wd 2tb elements portable usb 3. Got wdc wd5000lmvw11veds0 as external usb hdd and it spins down after being idle for some. Below youll find links that lead directly to the download page of 25 popular linux distributions. Spindown no longer uses multiple threads, and the init script now uses linux standard base functions. For solid state drives ssd this has no affect, but for traditional mechanical hard drives, when this happens the hard drive will spin down reducing its power usage and giving the drive an opportunity to cool down. For solid state drives ssd this has no affect, but for traditional mechanical hard drives, when this happens the hard drive will spin down reducing its power usage and giving the drive an. Ive looked at this but im a raspbianlinux noob and would appreciate any advice. The disks now spin down, but nearly immediately spin back up. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server how to build a linux. I am trying to get them to spin down because they will only be accessed in the evening and possibly during the day and evenings in the weekends.
The emc tech we contacted told us to leave the san running. Hdd spindown on arch linux philipps computing blog. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given. Setting sata hdd spindown time for western digital green. He said we would have fewer drives fail due to heat than if we shut down and restarted once the work was completed. Apr 22, 2008 there is a delicate balance between having a hard disk spinning down and up too frequently and leaving it spinning around the clock. Disk indexer this is a simple utility application for listing out files stored in a given directory or on whole o. I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting. Jan 01, 2017 by default windows 10 will power down hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity or if the computer is a laptop, 10 minutes when on battery. Ive tried creating live usb with builtin utility and after booting from it i tried to tick spin down hard disk when possible in power management but after waiting for. Energy saving spin down disk hard drive lifetime disk drive spin down energy new in spindown 0. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity. If you have a filesystem that you want to have near instant access to but do so on an infrequent basis, you might like to use spindown to automatically spin down the disk containing that filesystem after you have. This timeout value is used by the drive to determine how long to wait with no disk activity before turning off the spindle motor to save power.
According to the ataatapi7 v1 the specification that manufacturers should follow to be ata compliant, there is no way to know the current spin down times, so hdparm wouldnt be able to. There is a delicate balance between having a hard disk spinning down and up too frequently and leaving it spinning around the clock. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community. With the physical switch you can leave the power turned off to them completely until you want to use them. Im using archlinux and have the newest updates installed. To list your device names, enter mount in the terminal first.
Kde has unmounted external hard drives but not caused these drivers to stop spinning basically, powering off the drive. I also have a 500gb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 9 seconds of inactivity. Values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. A hybrid diskaware spindown algorithm with io subsystem. Id like those 4 disks to spin down when not being accessed, i. I tried enabling apm in the hard disk using hddscan, but it did not help apm changes to off when i power off and on the computer.
Aug 06, 2016 1 shutting the pc down removes power from the usb connection, but the usb disk continues to spin. This was observed with a toshiba p300 model hdwd120 hdd. Got wdc wd5000lmvw11veds0 as external usb hdd and it spins down after being idle for some time. There are cheapersmaller switches, i just posted that one as an. Since most external ide disk enclosures dont support setting the ide idle timer, a program like hdidle is required to spin down idle disks automatically. Recently i got a notebook dell inspiron n5010 aka 15r i use it basically for a lot of web browsing and reading stuff online so basically what i want is to run mint 10 from a usb flash drive whether its live or full installation, doesnt really matter and when mint loads up completely i want it to turn off the hard disk, i dont need it for. Whats the effect of standby spindown mode on modern. And it stays spun down, so im sure that the drive isnt accessed. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spindown features under linux. Spindown is a system daemon that spins down idle disks and so saving energy and giving the disks a longer lifetime.
Set max lba allows the drive capacity to be reduced or set to its native maximum capacity. I was interested in 1 automatic hdd spin down as well as 2 automatic shut down suspend, acpi s3 after some idle time. Kingwin hdd ps6 hard drive power switch to control up to 6 hdd with the software spin down solution, all the hard drives still power on when the computer starts. There was a multiple second delay as the disk was spun up before.
When active0 was reported i issued an ls command on a filesystem that i knew was stored on the drive. Linux and spin down hard disk by rocker85 20612 09. To spin down a hard drive after x minutes of inactivity issue the following commands. The entire point here is to do this directly, not by changing the systemwide spindown timeout to a 1second period and waiting for the disk to spin down. My conclusion is that the usb disk is reacting to some signal other than power, so it would be good to know if i can control this on the pc, i.
So ive tried to use udev and hdparm and have created following file. When you have found your external drive, use the following commands. Ddwrt forum view topic hdd spin down startup script. Kingwin hddps6 hard drive power switch to control up to 6 hdd with the software spindown solution, all the hard drives still power on when the computer starts. I use sdparm to spin down because hdparm doesnt recognize my hdd. The drives that are set to a value higher than 127 except 255 wont spin down, the drives that show not supported either manage this value on their own or are that old that they are not supporting power management at all. All my hdds have been reported as healthy, apart from a 2007 seagate laptop hdd i knew was dying. It works by checking how many blocks are read and written from the disks. When no blocks are read or written the disk is idle. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a.
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