External HDD not spinning down
I have an external hard disk that dose not spin down after its been idle for a bit, and gets quite hot. When I try to set standby time with hdparm it give a bad/missing sense data error. Is there any other way to set a spindown timer for an external hdd?
Here's the error:
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HDD spindown is not controlled by mount options...
(But it can prevent spindow though, depending on where it is mounted. Linux access some paths frequently which keep it up)
It's most likely some functionality provided by your HDD, which you will need to lookup on the technical documentation of it.
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How can I control HDD spin down time?
I have 2 HDDs in my PC. Ubuntu is turning off the secondary HDD very quickly after about 15 minutes, which is short for me. I need to control this time. How can I do it?
I tried GNOME power manage...
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i remember that gnome-disk-utility had some way to control the spindown time of harddrives
i do not know how to help you out much but still
Hmm there dose not seem to be a flatpack available and I'm on KDE Plasma....
worst case you can install it through a overlay!
rpm-ostree install gnome-disk-utility or something like that!
i dont remember the package name exactly but it must be thatWell the installation worked but the drive settings are grayed out, I can open the mount options but I'm not sure if there's anything I could add there to get the desired results.
Solution
HDD spindown is not controlled by mount options...
(But it can prevent spindow though, depending on where it is mounted. Linux access some paths frequently which keep it up)
It's most likely some functionality provided by your HDD, which you will need to lookup on the technical documentation of it.
most external HDD's should be
S.M.A.R.T. compatible which should have some way to set the spindown using a utility for it...
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T.
- https://askubuntu.com/a/1465880Ask Ubuntu
How can I control HDD spin down time?
I have 2 HDDs in my PC. Ubuntu is turning off the secondary HDD very quickly after about 15 minutes, which is short for me. I need to control this time. How can I do it?
I tried GNOME power manage...
Thank you for all the help!