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Keep large HDD from always spinning up (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

What's the issue with Ironwolf disks?

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    • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    You might check out the hdparm utility. It should allow you to set drive sleep parameters.

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    [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Wait, what’s the problem with ironwolf? I just got one. I thought they were good

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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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    • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    If I'm recalling correctly GNOME disks has a menu option for drive parameters so you can set stuff if the drive supports it.

    Edit: Something like this tabbed menu With Standby and Power Management

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    • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    hdparm

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    [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Well, you could set a cron job to touch a file every minute. I would start by checking the BIOS and OS power settings though.

    Unless it's USB. In that case it's probably all handled by the internal controller and the cron job is your best bet.

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