I send my hdd to sleep with /sbin/hdparm -S 241 /dev/sd[ab] every day at 8:30 pm. If there's no activity for 30 minutes the drive will enter standby.
At 06:00 am I want to change the 30 minutes to 4 hours.
But when I enter /sbin/hdparm -S 248 /dev/sd[ab] in the morning both drives spin up.
HelloAlthough I'm not a fan of dzillions of config files I decided to try systemd.
After removing the init script for hdparm with # update-rc.d hdparm remove, the wish is to re-install/fix/repair the hdparm init script.
when I was using the beta 9.10, there was a script in /etc/acpi/start.d/ called somthing like:
90-hdparm*
it was executed on startup, it does "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda" when on AC power or -B 128 when on battery.
I just installed a new Intel 330 60 GB SSD into my HP Mini 2140 laptop.
But it's not going as fast as expected and my hdparm results aren't looking very good compared to SSD benchmarks at:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_Benchmarking
My results and info are below.
hdparm results:
justin@justin-HP-2140:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1130 M
I am able to spindown my SATA HDDs by using
sudo hdparm -y /dev/sdc
The state shown by
sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdc
changes from active/idle to standby (and I can hear the HDD spin down).
However, using
sudo hdparm -S5 /dev/sdc
doesn't spin down the drive after 5*5 = 25secs.
Some additional information:
AHCI is enabled.
I am using Western Digital Green drives.
APM_level = not supported
Fil
Hello everybody!
When on battery, my laptop hard drive makes a tock tock every couple of seconds. Now if you think "this one is easy, hdparm...", wait a second, it gets trickier.
First of all: this is not a hardware issue, I have no problem under Windows 7 (I dual boot) and when the AC cable is plugged in.
I want to spin down some hard-disks when they are idle. So I used hdparm package. In the /etc/hdparm.conf I added following lines:
command_line {
hdparm -Ss 241 /dev/sda }
My intention was to spin down hard disk after 30 minutes of idle time. However, my problem is, how I know for sure whether hard disk has spun down (assuming that it had exceed idle time of 30 minutes)??
Any ideas? Tips??
hello
i own a dell laptop and have build in a brandnew HD of 320GB
now i want to apply hdparm
using google. i can not find reasonable info
any help is appreciated
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