Hello,

so I have quite a few drives in my desktop, but the main one that really lags my system down is a 12TB (seagate ironwolf, yes i know..). It seems to spin up and down often, then whenever I open a file in nemo I get freezeups when the drive has to spin up.

I know my 2 issues, it's an ironwolf, and I have it formatted as NTFS (because when I got it I was moving from windows to linux and kind of needed NTFS to still be there for windows. But now, I don't have a way to offload it all to reformat as EXT4.

Is there a way to keep it spun up for longer? My power saving shouldn't be doing anything with drives but i'm unsure.

I'm on Mint (yay noobs)

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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

You might be looking for the HDPARM command ...

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/hdparm-command-in-linux-with-examples/

I remember playing with this one for my measley 4Tb drive: LOts of options:

-S Set the standby timeout for the drive. A value of 0 disables standby mode.

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