The problem is the udisks2 daemon, which apparently scans smart data in a way that prevents drives from spinning down, and at a frequency that cant be adjusted. Hdd spindown on arch linux philipps computing blog. This software is designed to work with the seagate goflex for mac and seagate expansion drive products that dont include the seagate dashboard software. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given.
This is what everyone recommends using to set your idle timeout on the drive. However the option c is really hardware intensive and might result in disk failture if the drive was spin up spin down too often. Of course, you may need to modify that code depending on the hard disk drive s you want to control and how. After more than seven months of nonstop development, and more than two months of continuous testing by hundreds of spinrite 6. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle time this article assumes that you already know the unique id of the hard drive you want to configure. If the noise continues, you can eliminate the hard drive as the source. It seems to work if it is connected directly to the internal sata ports, but obviously i want to use the hba. Solidstate drives have much different spin down costs. I currently have it set to 30 mins so that the main drive will stayed. From the manual man hdparm on the command line s set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. After installing a fresh copy of windows 10 and successfully enabling optane for hdd acceleration with intel rst software my hdd now spins down and up during computer use and there are often times whenever i open up a new program or suddenly perform a function in an already opened program such as highlighting text in adobe pdf or rightclicking in. But setting a spindown timeout, either in nf or explicitly with hdparm. Automatically spin down usb hard drives after period of.
I have an asus h97me motherboard and on the asus website the official driver is 14. However, im still having a strange problem with the regular hard drives dru and ppu. After installing a fresh copy of windows 10 and successfully enabling optane for hdd acceleration with intel rst software my hdd now spins down and up during computer use and there are often times whenever i open up a new program or suddenly perform a function in an already opened program such as highlighting text in adobe pdf or right. I want to put the harddrive into standby mode using hdparm y. However, it will also work with other products like seagate goflex, freeagent go, and freeagent desk if the seagate manger or seagate dashboard programs arent already installed. Find processes causing regular wake ups of hard drives. These drives are on a server array, and i really dont want them to ever spin down. In short the approved windows 10 drivers from version 14 and above have a bug that prevents the standard hdd spin down in windows 10 from functioning. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle. This theoretically extends the life of your usb or sata hard drive. How to spin down some hard drives windows 10 forums. Secure livecd system how to make hard drive spin up down i hope this helps you. This hard drive has its own internal setting for spinning down after inactivity.
Digital issued a statement, claiming that linux is not optimized for low power storage. One way of reducing power consumption is to spin down the hard drives, or put them into standby, when they are not in use. 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. You can of course install pluma on ubuntu or gedit on linux mint if you like. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. On linux systems you often have to configure power saving parameters for your hard drive manually. Jan 21, 2007 is this function in drive hardwarefirmware level by default or does it needs additional software, drivers or something. I have an external seagate 4tb drive that has been set to spin down after 10 min. Tune your hard disk with hdparm hdparm is the tool to use when it comes to tuning your hard disk or dvd drive, but it can also measure read speed, deliver valuable information about the device, change important drive settings, and even erase ssds securely. I use hard drive sentinel to monitor the drives temps and see if the drive is active or not. Command line utility to sleep and wake up a particular hard. 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. Windows 10 ignores power settings for usb external hard. Call flushfilebuffers on the drive you need to be elevated to open \\.
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. I can hear them spin down, and for that matter, i can hear them spin up when i go to use them and of. I never had a hard drive failure neither pc nor a nas, so i will say that drive spindown is really usefull. Now we can set up a cron job to ask the usb hard drive to spin down ever hour at 5 past. If a drive will be idle for more than 4 hours such as machines that are left running overnight, it is good to spin down that drive after 60 to 90 minutes of idle. On windows machines hard drives automatically sleep and spin down when they are not in use. Im looking for some sort of utility that i can selectively spin down the secondary hard drive, so that if i want to carry the laptop around while on for. Yes, that is the head of the rotating drive hitting the disk. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a.
But this is bad, its a deliberately defective product and i hope someone sues. Instead of s180 for 15 minutes, you can also choose one of the other values underneath. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity. My previous computer had windows 7, and on that os, the same external hard drive would happily stay spinning 247, always. So ive recently built my own fileserver nas to store my files etc.
This feature is helpful for those who need to save energy, i. 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 finished accessing the drive. The parameter you want to set for spindown timing is s which is a value from 1 to 255. 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. Check the configuration of these services, if they are activated.
Theres a linux utility called hdparm which is designed to get or set parameters on sata or ide hard drives. Im using usb drive sat controller so hdparm doesnt fully work for me. And, of course, automatically spin them up again on access. Jan 04, 2017 if the hard drive stays stopped add the cronjob below. Turn off hard disk after idle in windows 10 winaero. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spindown features under linux. I use raspbian and am looking for a way to connect an old seagate 500gb usb externally powered hard drive so i can store my movies etc on it. So im really not sure if theyre spinning down or not.
How to park or spindown an external usb harddisk, linux. The disks now spin down, but nearly immediately spin back up. Dxwnd windows hooker intercepts system calls to make win32 programs running in a window, to support a be. Id like those 4 disks to spin down when not being accessed, i.
Im running linux mint 17, and im attempting to get my unused drives parity, cold storage to spin down when not in use. I think hard drive spin down is not working correctly in all instances. New seagate drives have real difficulties with linux more login. Of course, you may need to modify that code depending on the hard disk drives you want to control and how. New seagate drives have real difficulties with linux 361.
Then, after the timeout passes, theyll spin down again. If the drive was the source of the noise then the sound will stop. I wonder, if there isnt any application capable to send spin down command to selected general sata2 drive only as the command itself was supported in power management for whole disk system. Jan 04, 2016 in short the approved windows 10 drivers from version 14 and above have a bug that prevents the standard hdd spin down in windows 10 from functioning. If i set them to spin down after 45 minutes of inactivity, they do. Time i read that in the linux kernel there is a bug against the aggression of energy saving and excessive work of the heads of the hard disk. Is this function in drive hardwarefirmware level by default or does it needs additional software, drivers or something. If the hard drive is formatted using ext4 it will not spin down when it is mounted, but it will spin down when unmounted.
Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity lucid. The spindown daemon keeps track of which disks it should try to spin down using their device ids. Acer sf3145431ry hard drive spins up down every 1020. This article wants to shed some light on how hdparm in connection with advanced power management. 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. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community. So apm i think will spin down my hard drive after a bit of inactivity, but after about a minute or so, the drives will start spinning again even though i didnt even touch the darn thing. Is there a way to tell windows server r2 to spin down a hard drive if there is inactivity while the hdd is connected to a 9220i in it mode. 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. This test will spin down the drive just like a power management idle condition. However the option c is really hardware intensive and might result in disk failture if the drive was spin upspin down too often. Make the api call that sets the timeout for spinning down the disk to 1 second, then increase it back to its former value after 1 second. But setting a spindown timeout, either in nf or explicitly with hdparm s does not seem to do anything.
If the hard drive stays stopped add the cronjob below. There is probably an easy way to adjust the spin down time but i. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. There is a delicate balance between having a hard disk spinning down and up too frequently and leaving it spinning around the clock. Put the drive into idle lowpower mode, and also set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. Turn off hard disk after idle in windows 10 a special option in windows 10 allows the user to turn off hard drives automatically after a specified period of inactivity. If i spin them down explicitly with hdparm y, they now stay that way thanks to your tip in another thread. Automatically spin down usb hard drives after period of inactivity. However, there is no option to control the amount of time that must elapse before the disk spins down. Description top hdparm provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces supported by the linux satapatasas libata subsystem and the older ide driver subsystem.
Set max lba occasionally, a disk drive may be too large and its size needs to be reduced to a lower capacity. Stop spindown of usb hdd solved windows 7 help forums. In storage disks i set the hdd standby to 20 minutes and the adv. However what i was trying to decide was the back and forth question of do i leave the hard drives spinning constantly or should i have them spin down. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spin down features under linux. With the physical switch you can leave the power turned off to them completely until you want to use them. Set max lba occasionally, a disk drive may be too large and its size needs to be reduced to a. If you add a new drive and the old 80gb disk moves from being devsdd to devsde, you.
Is there a command line utility to sleep and wake up a particular hard drive. On debian, with wd drives, i find that setting any level with hdparm s results in the drive returning a level 254 on subsequent hdparm i. Apr 22, 2008 the spindown daemon keeps track of which disks it should try to spin down using their device ids. Most modern hard disk drives have the ability to speed down the head movements to reduce their noise output. This article wants to shed some light on how hdparm in connection with advanced power management works and how some default values might keep the disk. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard disk. What i learnt from using wd red disks to build a home nas. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks. Many newer 2008 and later usb drive enclosures now also support sat scsiata command translation and therefore may also work with. New seagate drives have real difficulties with linux slashdot. This drive runs an embedded build of the linux kernel and i was able to gain root access via ssh to the device.
For linux you can wake up a previous mounted drive with a little prod using the following. You dont need to umount the partitions in order to spin down the hard drive. New seagate drives have real difficulties with linux. Although the project description mentions that this is handy for using spindown on usb disks, i find it to be equally important for permanently attached disks. Acer sf3145431ry hard drive spins updown every 1020. Do not spindown the drives of a raidsetup independently. There is probably an easy way to adjust the spin down time but i havent been able to figure out what it is. Note that you may need to ramp up to the former value rather than immediately jump to it. Seeing the preferences of xfce4powermanager, i found the option. Do not spin down the drives of a raidsetup independently. Since this server will be running 24 hours a day the running costs are something that should not be ignored. I have a usb boot device and 4 hard disks in a zfs pool.
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