I have created linux bootable thumb drive using ubuntu. To spin down a hard drive after x minutes of inactivity issue the following commands. Hdds not spinning down when idle windows 10 forums. However, when the data is accessed from the drive it starts spinning fast. Kde has unmounted external hard drives but not caused these drivers to stop spinning basically, powering off the drive. The eject command can also target a specific drive, external and internal, and mountdisk can remount it. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity lucid.
For now i solved this with a cronjob that executes touch on some random file but that means the drive never actually spins down. I have external hdd of segate on which i want to install linux disto. When the drive is not in use, it spins in a low rate. Im using xfce and been trying to find a solution to automatically spin down my hdd hard drive for some time now. It is designed to give greater user control over the spindown. What is the spindown time how long does it take to go into powersaving spindown mode for the wd 2tb elements portable usb 3. 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. 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. Most external hard drives will respond to an sdparm command to stop the drive. External hard drive spins down when not in use in windows. Below youll find links that lead directly to the download page of 25 popular linux distributions. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard. Often this does not happen immediately because there can be some information about the filesystem cached, so, e. 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.
Automatically spin down usb hard drives after period of. 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. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a. The remaining three drives are backups, one for each drive. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spin down features under linux. Solved external usbhdd wont spin down after safe removal. I was interested in 1 automatic hdd spin down as well as 2 automatic shut down suspend, acpi s3 after some idle time. Hello you can setup the sleep timer for your drive using the wd drive utilities app. This is a normal behavior of any external hard drive. Spin down hdd with raspberry pi using hdidle tamas hudak. Do you know if the wd drive utilities will install and control sleep timer for the latest external 3tb elements drive. 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. I wrote a little shell script to check the activity on the hdd and do a spin down after 20 minutes without activity. This theoretically extends the life of your usb or sata hard.
On windows machines hard drives automatically sleep and spin down when they are not in use. I use sdparm to spin down because hdparm doesnt recognize my hdd. Modern hard drives support numerous power management features, the most. Raspberry pi stack exchange is a question and answer site for users and developers of hardware and software for raspberry pi. The utilities are not listed in the download section for this drive. But what im looking for is something that would automatically spin down the external hdd when its not in actual use, while still keeping it connected and visible in windows.
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. It turned out that the hdd i wanted to spin down doesnt support apm and that with my secondary hdd it works perfectly. Got wdc wd5000lmvw11veds0 as external usb hdd and it spins down after being idle for some time. Hdd spin down hdd standby qnap nas community forum. You can safely unmount and spindown an external hard disk from the terminal most easily by using the commandline functionality of udisks. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle. Values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spindown features under linux. 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. Unmount by clicking the eject icon, or by rightclicking it and then clicking. Using the file manager, click on the drive to view the files. Im trying to spin down my hdd after 10 minutes so i did hdparm s 120 devsda but it doesnt spin down. Sep 10, 2011 just a caution you probably already know.
I am not sure what changed the behaviour of the disk. Getting external hard drives to sleepspindown by philippelemay nov 6, 2012 11. The drive keeps spinning down after about 5 or 10 minutes. On linux systems you often have to configure power saving parameters for your hard drive. 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. I also have a 500gb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 9 seconds of inactivity.
May 09, 2017 after clicking on the hard drive to load it up on the system, the user will be asked to enter a password. Since the hard drive is connected using an usb dongle, lets check the power settings set for the usb controller using which the external hard drive is connected. Once entered, the hard drive is mounted to the system. But those tools are generally for being able to tune high end. Some manufacturers have firmware settings applications the spin down is likely all in firmware of the drive not the os that might be able to modify things like that. I created the attached script, idledrive, which will let you spin down external drives automatically after they go idle. 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. Im using archlinux and have the newest updates installed.
However, its inconvenient to run the commands manually every time, especially if the drives are used offhours by cron jobs. Youll want to schedule it so its only spunup while you are loggedon or something perhaps. Kde will now safely spin down external hard drives when. Only turning the computer off completely, or pulling the power to the drive itself, makes the external drive spin down completely. This utility is for use with all western digital external hard drives except for the media center and the dualoption backup drives. Time to make hdparm configurations permanent edit the configuration file. Browse other questions tagged harddisk externalhdd dockstation or ask your own question. I dont often access the data on the spinning hard drive so would like to.
A good little utility to power down an external hdd when. To install and start it running with a timeout of 10 minutes, i followed. 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. Talking about sata disks, the former is the most possible reason. Perhaps another way would be to create a scheduled task that writes then deletes a text file to the external hard drive every couple of minutes or so, although im not sure how you do it. And it stays spun down, so im sure that the drive isnt accessed. 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. May 07, 2020 values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. Run the following commands line by line to install hdidle. I tested these steps on an internal hd, and on external firewire 800 and thunderbolt hds, including a. Most of the new hdds should spin down out of the box but sometimes you might realize that your connected usb hdd is still spinning despite you havent used your favorite. How to park or spindown an external usb harddisk, linux.
Nov 06, 2012 getting external hard drives to sleep spin down by philippelemay nov 6, 2012 11. Spindown is a system daemon that spins down idle disks and so saving energy and giving the disks a longer lifetime. I have the same problem on my banana pro but it worked before. One way of reducing power consumption is to spin down the hard drives, or put them into standby, when they are not in use. 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.
Ddwrt forum view topic hdd spin down startup script. I have a seagate external usb hdd connected to a computer on my home network which i. The eject command spins down the drive, which is what the op desires. Or if i sleep my macs, all attached external drives will spin down. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity. So the drive is likely to run hotterthandesirable in that enclosure. I use it mounted via network, and if it is spun down, when accessed it takes a second or two to spin up. You can use hdparm to set a value between 1 and 255 for spindown the command for this is hdparm s255 devsdx with x of course applied to your devices you can use blkid to find the correct device the device then spins up when accessed. 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. The issue is those remaining three drives dont spin down, even though they should be idle 23 hours of the day. 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. Force spindown of external harddrive on linux raspberry pi. However since reinstalling windows 7 pro on a bigger sdd drive all of my personal data is on the same spinning disk drive as before, the safely remove drive feature doesnt work in the. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks.
I have an asus h97me motherboard and on the asus website the official driver is 14. External usb seagate spin down qnap nas community forum. But now, i want to start the script automatical with cron, using this command. 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. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community. Linux and spin down hard disk by rocker85 20612 09. Getting external hard drives to sleepspindown november. Stop spindown of usb hdd solved windows 7 help forums.
So the drive is likely to run hotterthandesirable in that enclosure, thereby shortening its life. Next, scroll down to the bottom and then press the insert key once this will take us into edit mode and. Hdd spindown on arch linux philipps computing blog. So ive tried to use udev and hdparm and have created following file. I have a 1tb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 10 minutes of inactivity. At the moment that linux system a raspberry pi was shutdown, the hdds spin down. 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.
When needed accessed it is mounted fine, and the hdds spin down. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard disk. There was a multiple second delay as the disk was spun up before. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi sleep. The value of 0 disables spindown, the values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of 5. When no blocks are read or written the disk is idle. Topic 1 was for one out of my 3 different toshiba hdds not running out of the box, i. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given. When active0 was reported i issued an ls command on a filesystem that i knew was stored on the drive. Upon first connection it did not spin down manually and it did not spin down automatically. Use hdparm c devsdx to check for the devices status idleactivestandby with standby meaning spun down please handle with care.
A setting of 30 seconds is recommended for linux use. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server how to build a linux. Auto start midori browser in fullscreen kiosk modus raspberry pi linux. To solve this situation i need that mount in the system, i used autofs with options timeout 300 ghost, and works like a charm. After clicking on the hard drive to load it up on the system, the user will be asked to enter a password. You can of course install pluma on ubuntu or gedit on linux mint if you like. 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. I didnt reboot but i also have an udev rule which executes this command but when i do hdparm y devsda it works perfectly. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. Take wd spindown or stop utility for a spin to see how useful it can actually be for you. Spin down idle hard drive raspberry pi stack exchange.
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