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. For some other drives, the hdparm command is acknowledged but the drive do not respect the parameters either apm or spin down timer. 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. Hdd spindown on arch linux philipps computing blog.
The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spindown features under linux. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks. It turned out that the hdd i wanted to spin down doesnt support apm and that with my secondary hdd it works perfectly. If i do hdparm y devsdg devsdh the drives spin down but after 25 minutes they become active again.
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. Erase write same this is a faster especially for usb drives version of erase. Time to make hdparm configurations permanent edit the configuration file. I wrote a little shell script to check the activity on the hdd and do a spin down after 20 minutes without activity. There is a delicate balance between having a hard disk spinning down and up too frequently and leaving it spinning around the clock. 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. Id like those 4 disks to spin down when not being accessed, i. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. Aug 06, 2016 1 shutting the pc down removes power from the usb connection, but the usb disk continues to spin. With the physical switch you can leave the power turned off to them completely until you want to use them. So ive tried to use udev and hdparm and have created following file.
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. When no blocks are read or written the disk is idle. The define idle spin down times between 30 minutes and 5. Such drives can be spun down using hdidle which ships with a systemd service. I also have a 500gb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 9 seconds of inactivity. 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. 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. 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 found this thread with the same issue and still no answerfix. Energy saving spin down disk hard drive lifetime disk drive spin down energy new in spindown 0. 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. Kde has unmounted external hard drives but not caused these drivers to stop spinning basically, powering off the drive. How to spin down some hard drives windows 10 forums. 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. Im using archlinux and have the newest updates installed. Setting sata hdd spindown time for western digital green. When active0 was reported i issued an ls command on a filesystem that i knew was stored on the drive. Spindown is a system daemon that spins down idle disks and so saving energy and giving the disks a longer lifetime. Got wdc wd5000lmvw11veds0 as external usb hdd and it spins down after being idle for some time. 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. I use sdparm to spin down because hdparm doesnt recognize my hdd.
Disk indexer this is a simple utility application for listing out files stored in a given directory or on whole o. The disks now spin down, but nearly immediately spin back up. I have an asus h97me motherboard and on the asus website the official driver is 14. The emc tech we contacted told us to leave the san running. 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. Automatic disk standby using kernel diskstats and hdparm. May 07, 2020 values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. Fixing a seven year old bug since the kde4 days, kde will now spin down external hard drives unmounting the drives to help stave off possible data loss corruption. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a. I have a 1tb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 10 minutes of inactivity. Values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. Spindown no longer uses multiple threads, and the init script now uses linux standard base functions.
To list your device names, enter mount in the terminal first. 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. Talking about sata disks, the former is the most possible reason. Im using xfce and been trying to find a solution to automatically spin down my hdd hard drive for some time now. This was observed with a toshiba p300 model hdwd120 hdd. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spin down features under linux. 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.
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. There are cheapersmaller switches, i just posted that one as an. All my hdds have been reported as healthy, apart from a 2007 seagate laptop hdd i knew was dying. Spin down spins the drive down so you can determine if noise in a system is caused by the drive or by something else. It works by checking how many blocks are read and written from the disks. Drives western digital sdc to sdf is my raid 5 array. Got wdc wd5000lmvw11veds0 as external usb hdd and it spins down after being idle for some. 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. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server how to build a linux. Spin down idle hard drive raspberry pi stack exchange. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community. How to use seatools bootable seagate support asean. Whats the effect of standby spindown mode on modern. Ddwrt forum view topic hdd spin down startup script.
Below youll find links that lead directly to the download page of 25 popular linux distributions. A hybrid diskaware spindown algorithm with io subsystem. And it stays spun down, so im sure that the drive isnt accessed. Whats the effect of standby spindown mode on modern hard.
In storage disks i set the hdd standby to 20 minutes and the adv. There was a multiple second delay as the disk was spun up before. I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down 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 save power. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard disk. He said we would have fewer drives fail due to heat than if we shut down and restarted once the work was completed. Ive looked at this but im a raspbianlinux noob and would appreciate any advice. I have a usb boot device and 4 hard disks in a zfs pool. 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. 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.
This short 5sec spindownsleep, whatever you call it, is not normal, and will certainly cause hdd damage. 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. Linux and spin down hard disk by rocker85 20612 09. I have the same problem on my banana pro but it worked before. I was interested in 1 automatic hdd spin down as well as 2 automatic shut down suspend, acpi s3 after some idle time. We once had to shut our server room down for the air conditioner to be repaired it was scheduled maintenance. 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. To spin down a hard drive after x minutes of inactivity issue the following commands. 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. 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 would like to change that setting to 10 minutes at least.
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. Researchers have proposed several spindown algorithms that can efficiently reduce hard disk power consumption 5 678. 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. 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. When you have found your external drive, use the following commands. But now, i want to start the script automatical with cron, using this command. I didnt reboot but i also have an udev rule which executes this command but when i do hdparm y devsda it works perfectly. 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. Put the drive into idle lowpower mode, and also set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. Take wd spindown or stop utility for a spin to see how useful it can actually be for you. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given. Im trying to spin down my hdd after 10 minutes so i did hdparm s 120 devsda but it doesnt spin down. Hi i have 2 drives connected to my cuboxi 4pro imx6.
What is the spindown time how long does it take to go into powersaving spindown mode for the wd 2tb elements portable usb 3. 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. Ive looked at this but im a raspbian linux noob and would appreciate any advice. Kde will now safely spin down external hard drives when. Next, scroll down to the bottom and then press the insert key once this will take us into edit mode and. 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.
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