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Immediately spin down a HDD on Windows
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Mar 15, 202664616 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have 2 non-system SATA HDDs which are not mapped to a dir and normally kept 'offline' on my Windows 7 OS. Even this way they spin up from time to time, including but not limited to windows update times. It's easy on Linux but, what is the best way to spin down a HDD on demand using as small 3rd p…
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Fix for: Immediately spin down a HDD on Windows
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Since you are familiar with Linux, stick to the command-line utility of smartmontools. You can spin down disks with the switch. From the man page: -s NAME[,VALUE], --set=NAME[,VALUE] standby,now - [ATA only] Places the drive in the STANDBY mode. Thi…
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