Talk:F2 hdparm

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Spin down your disk

If your external disk is noisy, or if you're using it rarely (e.g. weekly backup) you might want to spin it down.

To do so, try options -y, -Y, -S

hdparm -S 120 /dev/sda
 /dev/sda:
 setting standby to 120 (10 minutes)

this might not work with any USB device. Most of the enclosures with integrated HD don't honor the standby command.

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Is anyone able to confirm this works on F2 and if it worth? --Luca.necchi

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I guess that my hard drive doesn't support it either:

root@Fonera:~# hdparm -S 120 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting standby to 120 (10 minutes)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle1) failed: Invalid argument

--Inouk 16:17, 20 October 2009 (UTC)