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How do I get my disks to spin down after one hour?
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I'm currently configuring a new home server, and I am trying to get the disks to spin down after one hour. But they do not spin down. Setup I have my entire system on an ssd: /dev/sda. I have three hdds in the system: /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. They are not mounted, although they do contain (…
Error Output
hdparm -y /dev/sdb
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In its default configuration, smartd checks disk status once every 30 minutes, except when the disk is in standby. Apparently, that generates enough disk-activity for disks to never actually go to sleep (for timeouts larger than 30 minutes), but doe…
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