Keep usb hard drive from spinning down while mounted the usb hard drive has a built in mechanism that makes the disk spin down after five minutes of inactivity. Spindown no longer uses multiple threads, and the init script now uses linux standard base functions. When passing both b and s parameters, apm values less than 128 might cause the drive to spin down before the s timeout value. I know that in the power options i can set the hard drive to turn off after a while, but i think thats just for when the whole computer goes to. The other is a 500gb sata internal drive connected to an sata usb 2. Or if i sleep my macs, all attached external drives will spin down. 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.
On windows machines hard drives automatically sleep and spin down when they are not in use. 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. If youd rather load linux without going through windows first this is the way to go. Erase write same this is a faster especially for usb drives version of erase. Initially i tried using the build in timer and the drive would spin down once and then spin up after less than a minute. Have now installed hdparm and hdidle, and both can spin the drive down after the time set i use 1030s for the testing, but the drive spins up within a minute. This will start hdidle with the default options, causing all scsi read. Spin down spins the drive down so you can determine if noise in a system is caused by the drive or by something else. Install linux to a usb hard drive category pen drive linux. Spin down external hard drive now obsolete raspberry pi forums. If you shuffle your data around to put infrequently accessed data on old disks that are spun down, you might have to spin up the disks only once every 36 months. Not letting the drive spin down can reduce its lifetime. Automatically spin down usb hard drives after period. Id like those 4 disks to spin down when not being accessed, i.
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. Spin down hdd with raspberry pi using hdidle tamas hudak. Thats probably because the drive was running for so long, the heat build up made it nice and soft, so when it turned off, the now soft materials stuck together. I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting. Sep 17, 2008 i have an ide hard drive in an enclosure powered by the mains and connected to my mac mini running tiger by usb. Due to popular email demand from our subscribers, we have decided to write a simple tutorial on the ubuntu usb hard drive installation procedure.
Unfortunately this drive spins down when inactive which is annoying to say the least. Note that you may need to ramp up to the former value rather than immediately jump to it. So ive tried to use udev and hdparm and have created following file. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a. Product and serial being the output from sudo lshw class disk. Write back to us with the status of the issue on the same post for further assistance. Find your external hard drive s name or classification e. Run the following commands line by line to install hdidle.
Values from 1 to 127 permit spindown, whereas values from 128 to 254 do not. Its possible the port in question is failing, or just being finicky with your specific drive. The process is made possible due to a custom portable suse script created by james rhodes. This was observed with a toshiba p300 model hdwd120 hdd. Tomato usb comes with a builtin command called scsistop. Spin forever data centers are probably one of the worst wasters of electricity today. Download wd spindown or stop utility a handy wd hard drive management utility. I would consider addressing the timeout issue instead. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spindown features under linux. One way of reducing power consumption is to spin down the hard drives, or put them into standby, when they are not in use. The drive spins constantly whenever it has power, regardless of whether its mounted or any readwrite is taking place. Running linux from a usb drive as a virtual machine or. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle. This hard drive has its own internal setting for spinning down after inactivity.
Kingwin hddps6 hard drive power switch to control up to 6 hdd with the software spindown solution, all the hard drives still power on when the computer starts. Linux and spin down hard disk by rocker85 20612 09. How to install a linux os in your usb flash drive and turn it. Laptop mode tools is a laptop power saving package for linux systems. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi sleep. In storage disks i set the hdd standby to 20 minutes and the adv. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks. The drive is a samsung hd154ui usb device housed in an iomega enclosure. 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. Pi 1 headless wheezy, downloading radio, pi 1 running picore headless media. How to use seatools bootable seagate support asean. The wd drive doesnt show this problem, it simply spins up again when i use it. With multipass you can download, configure, and control ubuntu server virtual machines with latest updates preinstalled.
On linux systems you often have to configure power saving parameters for your hard drive. Call flushfilebuffers on the drive you need to be elevated to open \\. Spinning down the disks reduce the noise and dramatically decrease the power consumption. A setting of 30 seconds is recommended for linux use. May 04, 2020 if the drive still isnt working, unplug it and try a different usb port. To spin down a hard drive after x minutes of inactivity issue the following commands. Nov 15, 2011 initially i tried using the build in timer and the drive would spin down once and then spin up after less than a minute. What to do when your external hard drive won t show up. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server how to build a linux. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity. Windows 10 ignores power settings for usb external hard. You can of course install pluma on ubuntu or gedit on linux mint if you like. Id like it to only spin when im accessing it and to spin down after say 5 mins activity or the mac goes to sleep. I never had a hard drive failure neither pc nor a nas, so i will say that drive spindown is really usefull.
A disk idle condition is detected if the disk statistics arent changed for a while. Talking about sata disks, the former is the most possible reason. To set the drive to the highest power saving level with the highest performance and yet allow it to spin down after 15 minutes type the following command in your rc. However, its inconvenient to run the commands manually every time, especially if. Close the window and check if the changes are effective.
The only nas i personally use disk spin down on is my dedicated backup nas that normally is only active a few hours a night. You must specify spindown 1 in each disk section to instruct spindown to monitor the disk. The user basically boots from the live opensuse cd and performs the installation via the included yast2 install script to install suse to a usb hard drive. Stop spindown of usb hdd solved windows 7 help forums. On the old laptop i make the usb drive priority and insert usb stick and go. As a first step we need to update the package lists of raspbian. 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. The power usage of the disks in a ts219p ii may be high compared to the total power but honestly, put in perspective, it is most likely ridiculous to. You umount your external usb harddisk, next you pull the usb plug and you hear a little.
For some other drives, the hdparm command is acknowledged but the drive do not respect the parameters either apm or spin down timer. Apr 22, 2008 while hard disks will always fail, you might be able to keep a filesystem around on a raid a little bit longer by spinning down disks when not in use. I had a usb hdd for a while and i couldnt get it to stay powered on. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity lucid. Now we can set up a cron job to ask the usb hard drive to spin down ever hour at 5 past. In some cases, youll only be able to select usb devices or similar in this menu. The nas automatically mountsunmounts the drive with autofs. Set up a minicloud on your linux, windows, or macos system. The other is a 500gb sata internal drive connected to an satausb 2.
May 07, 2020 if the hard drive stays stopped add the cronjob below. Instead of s180 for 15 minutes, you can also choose one of the other values underneath. However, its inconvenient to run the commands manually every time, especially if the drives are used offhours by cron jobs. Force spindown of external harddrive on linux raspberry pi. If the hard drive stays stopped add the cronjob below. The possible value depends on the disk, some disks may not support this feature. With the physical switch you can leave the power turned off to them completely until you want to use them. How to park or spindown an external usb harddisk, linux. The following tutorial covers the process of installing suse linux to an external usb hard drive using the opensuse live cd. Such drives can be spun down using hdidle which ships with a systemd service.
Most modern hard disk drives have the ability to speed down the head movements to. On a debian system, after editing etcdefaulthdidle and enabling it, use etcinit. Whats the effect of standby spindown mode on modern. My previous computer had windows 7, and on that os, the same external hard drive would happily stay spinning 247, always.
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. Most external hard drives will respond to an sdparm command to stop the drive. Please note that hdidle uses procdiskstats to read disk statistics. Please look at the source given below, read carefully and see if it helps. I start the usb installer and select the linuxmint with correct usb drive. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard. 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. Jan 04, 2016 expand hard disk turn off hard disk after and set a time of your choice from the drop down bar. I have an ide hard drive in an enclosure powered by the mains and connected to my mac mini running tiger by usb. If the drive was kept cool enough, the metals, plastics, etc. The default action is for spindown not to monitor and spin down any drives. I had a similar problem before with a backup nas and using an automounter such as autofs ensured that the system would not timeout and only spin up the disks if the mountpoint is accessed and automounted.
Getting external hard drives to sleepspindown november. The wd drive doesnt show this problem, it simply spins up again when i. This is totally unnecessary for a usb external hard drive if you are only going be using it to store data and not to run an operating system. Most modern hard disk drives have the ability to speed down the head movements to reduce their noise output. Kde has unmounted external hard drives but not caused these drivers to stop spinning basically, powering off the drive. In addition, it allows you to tweak a number of other powerrelated settings using a simple configuration file. Hdd spindown on arch linux philipps computing blog.
I wasnt even aware that i had to worry about spinning down the drive but i came. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community. Ive tried hdparm b255 and s0, but these commands do not work on the disk, hdparm returns with an error. As a matter of fact, it is almost as simple as a regular ubuntu internal hard drive or compact flash card installation. There are a few different tools for creating bootable usb drives around the web. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle time. Once the disk idle time out is reached, the program sends a scsi motor control command in order to spin down the disk motor.
Next, scroll down to the bottom and then press the insert key once this will take us into edit mode and. I recently had to transfer my main data to another usb drive because of problems with the original. Keep usb hard drive from spinning down while mounted. Energy saving spin down disk hard drive lifetime disk drive spin down energy new in spindown 0. Set max lba allows the drive capacity to be reduced or set to its native maximum capacity. I have a usb boot device and 4 hard disks in a zfs pool. How to spin down some hard drives windows 10 forums.
Expand hard disk turn off hard disk after and set a time of your choice from the drop down bar. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard disk. The problem with the sata drive is that it seems to disconnect while spinned down and then unmounts itself. Whenever a drive is formatted in linux, it reserves about 5% of the total space on the drive for the operating system to continue using the hard drive to operate, even if it get full. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spin down features under linux.
Find your external hard drives name or classification e. Whats the effect of standby spindown mode on modern hard. I reformatted the drive with an ext4 filesystem, mounted it with noatime. Im using xfce and been trying to find a solution to automatically spin down my hdd hard drive for some time now. However the option c is really hardware intensive and might result in disk failture if the drive was spin up spin down too often. This theoretically extends the life of your usb or sata hard. This did not happen when it was mounted with ntfs3g, but ever since switching to ext4 it has just not stopped spinning. If you shuffle your data around to put infrequently accessed data on old disks that are spun down, you might have to spin up the disks only once every 3.
How to boot from an external hard drive with pictures wikihow. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. While hard disks will always fail, you might be able to keep a filesystem around on a raid a little bit longer by spinning down disks when not in use. The disks now spin down, but nearly immediately spin back up. Sep 10, 2011 i recently had to transfer my main data to another usb drive because of problems with the original. A complete ubuntu install to a usb hard drive is a relatively simple process. It is the primary way to enable the laptop mode feature of the linux kernel, which lets your hard drive spin down. Make the api call that sets the timeout for spinning down the disk to 1 second, then increase it back to its former value after 1 second.
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