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maggie

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Registered: 2011-02-12

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Modern advice for making unused HDDs spin down

What is the recommended method to control HDDs that are infrequently used? Is there a systemd service that handles it or is the old hdparm method still recommended? Thanks you.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: Modern advice for making unused HDDs spin down

You should probably create a systemd unit that calls hdparm after the device is detected by systemd with after/requires. An udev rule might even be better for drives that are not always present, just like described in the wiki article in the parking section.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hd … hard_drive

Last edited by progandy (2014-08-06 23:15:33)

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