I want you to spin down when you are not using the raid drive for a while. I make use of these commands when remotely shutting down a headless linux. Hopefully it will be included in man hdparm in the future. Theres a linux utility called hdparm which is designed to get or set parameters on sata or ide hard drives. Tune your hard disk with hdparm hdparm is the tool to use when it comes to tuning your hard disk or dvd drive, but it can also measure read speed, deliver valuable information about the device, change important drive settings, and even erase ssds securely. Spindown utility to spindown your disk when not in use in. You can safely unmount and spin down an external hard disk from the terminal most easily by using the commandline functionality of udisks. For some other drives, the hdparm command is acknowledged but the drive do not respect the parameters either apm or spin down timer. A setting of 30 seconds is recommended for linux use. Limitedtime offer applies to the first charge of a new subscription only. List of timeout values for hdparm s this list should help everyone always wondering which value to use for the hdparm s flag.
How to put a rarely used sata hdd in idle mode windows. I dont have spindown enabled currently, but if i watch the hd light it flashes every few seconds even though i know the server isnt being used for anything. Im using archlinux and have the newest updates installed. Jan 04, 2016 in short the approved windows 10 drivers from version 14 and above have a bug that prevents the standard hdd spin down in windows 10 from functioning. Do you have any ideas how i can turn off this disk access or increase it at over 120 min. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spin down features under linux. Ive modified it by swapping out the sas commands with the ataidle commands since im using the n36l onboard sata but still have problems with my drives not spinning down via the script and the freenas gui 9. The command to spin a drive down via usb is not only seldom supported, but naturally due to the usb interface it is different to the command a system may use to spin down a drive over sata or ide, because to the system it does not look like a disk drive, but a usb mass storage interface. By default windows 10 will power down hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity or if the computer is a laptop, 10 minutes when on battery. Querying the status of the disk without waking it up.
Many newer 2008 and later usb drive enclosures now also support sat scsiata command translation and therefore. The entire point here is to do this directly, not by changing the systemwide spin down timeout to a 1second period and waiting for the disk to spin down. Topic 1 was for one out of my 3 different toshiba hdds not running out of the box, i. On linux systems you often have to configure power saving parameters for. I tried 2 different drives, and tested as well with the ubuntu image, and. In some cases it might be wise to spin down a hdd in order to save power, reduce noise or whatever. Apr 22, 2008 if you have a filesystem that you want to have near instant access to but do so on an infrequent basis, you might like to use spindown to automatically spin down the disk containing that filesystem after you have finished accessing the drive. The sdparm utility the linux scsi generic sg driver.
Jan 21, 2007 if you were using linux, hdparm s would do it for you. One thing to consider is that hdparm is not the proper tool for interacting with sata or scsi devices. Sata drive spindown, laptop mode, and hdparmwhat works and how. For sata disks, this is the native command queuing ncq queue depth.
For use with scsi devices, install the sdparm package. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks. Seagate hard disk randomly keeps turning on and off the. If you were using linux, hdparm s would do it for you. This is where the bean shake comes in where you had to shake the disk in the same plane as the platters to break the stiction preventing it spinning. In my desktop pc i have two internal sata hard drives. Ive read a few similar questions on here and thats what ive created my. But it appears that the esxi accesses the hdds every 30 min, because the automatic spin down only works with an idle time less then 30 min. Description hdparm provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces supported by the linux sata patasas libata subsystem and the older ide driver subsystem. How can i find out the current drive spindown time. Talking about sata disks, the former is the most possible reason.
Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a. One way of reducing power consumption is to spin down the hard drives, or put them into standby, when they are not in use. Since this server will be running 24 hours a day the running costs are something that should not be ignored. Otherwise temporarily install the ide disk in your ordinary linux box, read the disk technical documentation and use hdparm to adjust the settings by hand. When i use the same hdparm command in a shell, its working. Be aware that when attaching disks via usb a docking station, cage, adapter, etc.
Invoking hdparm with the query option is known to wakeup some drives. 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. Most people will tend to let the system manage spin up down of a hard drive, and mostly this feature is used on portable laptops to save battery. Enabling automatic spin down under linux is no problem for me. When set, linux disallows write operations on the device. So i suspect that the spindown is indeed triggered by the usbsata. How to put a rarely used sata hdd in idle mode posted in windows 10 support. Hi i have a large disk array 14 disks i use at home in my server for virtual machines. Digital issued a statement, claiming that linux is not optimized for low power storage. The sector number must be given base10 after this option. Unsure of sata drive spindown page 8 ixsystems community. This will result in 520sec delay on the next request, and no errors at all, not with zfs, not in mirrored or raid configs. Howto setup hdidle a hdd spin down sw together with.
Such drives can be spun down using hdidle which ships with a systemd service. All my sata disks are seagate and im not sure why some of the other posters are referring you to hitachi disks. Hdparm can get information about hard disk, change writing intervals, acoustic management, dma settings etc. I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting. Since most external ide disk enclosures dont support setting the ide idle timer, a program like hdidle is required to spin down idle disks automatically. Time i read that in the linux kernel there is a bug against the aggression of. Debian user forums view topic linux and spin down hard disk. From the manual man hdparm on the command line s set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. Many newer 2008 and later usb drive enclosures now also support sat scsiata command translation and therefore may also work with hdparm. Force spindown of external harddrive on linux raspberry pi. I need a function i can call at a specific moment in time when im using my laptop, not something generic that doesnt suit 95% of situations.
I have an asus h97me motherboard and on the asus website the official driver is 14. It turned out that the hdd i wanted to spin down doesnt support apm and that with my secondary hdd it works perfectly. Omv downloads for xu4hc1 have more than doubled since hc1 is available. And it stays spun down, so im sure that the drive isnt accessed. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle time. The power booster utility will enable the auto spin down feature of the disk. Im planning to set up a raspberry pi server and, among other things, use hard disks with usb adapters for nas with raid. Setting sata hdd spindown time for western digital green. I have the same problem on my banana pro but it worked before. Spindown utility to spindown your disk when not in use in opensuse. Other spin down idle disks with usb satapata adapter the.
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. Solved mdadm disk spin down does not work arch linux. Will spinning down hard disks create linux raid problems. So ive tried to use udev and hdparm and have created following file. Put the drive into idle lowpower mode, and also set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. If none of the more specific forums is the right place to ask. I was interested in 1 automatic hdd spin down as well as 2 automatic shut down suspend, acpi s3 after some idle time. Serial ata staggered spinup 4 1 summary platforms that include numerous serial ata hard disk drives may be presented with power system design issues related to the electrical current load presented during system powerup. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given idle. Possible settings range from values 1 through 127 which permit spin down, and values 128 through 254 which do not permit spin down. This theoretically extends the life of your usb or sata hard drive. Unless the disk doesnt spin back up, it should be ok.
Im using xfce and been trying to find a solution to automatically spin down my hdd hard drive for some time now. If those sata disks were using a sas interconnect then you could use my utilities and i spin up and down sata disks on windows and linux frequently. Linux have different tools to manage disk devices and hard disks. 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. This utility was originally written for linux and now has been ported to freebsd. I needed to control the power settings for this drive.
Or if i sleep my macs, all attached external drives will spin down. I was interested in 1 automatic hdd spin down as well as 2. I want the disks to spin down after some time of inactivity. Pick a good spin down time something that will keep the disks spun up during the time youll use them. Hdd spindown on arch linux philipps computing blog. When the scsi device is a disk, sdparms role is similar to its namesake. Is there a way to tell windows server r2 to spin down a hard drive if there is inactivity while the hdd is connected to a 9220i in it mode. It seems to work if it is connected directly to the internal sata ports, but obviously i want to use the hba. Possible settings range from values 1 through 127 which permit spindown, and values 128 through 254 which do not permit. The sdparm utility accesses scsi device parameters. Mar 16, 2019 hi i have 2 drives connected to my cuboxi 4pro imx6. Hi everyone i wanted to post, for posterity, what i recently learned while playing with my new external usb3 disk drive. Ive looked at this but im a raspbian linux noob and would appreciate any advice.
But i want an automatic spin down after 2 hours of idle. Jan 01, 2017 by default windows 10 will power down hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity or if the computer is a laptop, 10 minutes when on battery. The spindown daemon keeps track of which disks it should try to spin down using their device ids. When you change the sata port you connect your hdds to rather often, it would make more sense, to specify spin down times on the model serial. Find answers to ide harddisk spindown from the expert community at experts exchange. However, this wont spin down my disk after 15 minutes. How can i enable spinning down of idle hard disks on a debian lenny server. Oct, 2014 hi, ive just purchased two different usb3. Intelr 8th generation core processor family platform io sata ahciraid controller. You can of course install pluma on ubuntu or gedit on linux mint if you like. On linux systems you often have to configure power saving parameters for your hard drive manually. I noticed that it was never ever spinning down, so i wanted to be able to either power in up down on command, or have it automatically spin down after a period of inactivity. The purpose of this document is to explain how to use hard disk spindown features under linux. For solid state drives ssd this has no affect, but for traditional mechanical hard drives, when this happens the hard drive will spin down reducing its power usage and giving the drive an opportunity to cool down.
In short the approved windows 10 drivers from version 14 and above have a bug that prevents the standard hdd spin down in windows 10 from functioning. A hidden column also displays the linux block device identification symlinks dev disk byid,bypath,byuuid. But obviously, there may be large amounts of time when it is not in use, so id like to make it check to see if it is in use say every hour or so and if it isnt, spin down. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. The above is based on my own experience with my sata optical drive, and i am assuming that a sata hard disk would be similar. Spinning a disk down was ok but trying to spin it back up was like trying to move your car with the disk brakes locked.
Internal additional sata spin down hard disk drives hdd. Values from 1 to 127 permit spin down, whereas values from 128 to 254 do not. What i learnt from using wd red disks to build a home nas. I am trying to get them to spin down because they will only be accessed in the evening and possibly during the day and evenings in the weekends. Product and serial being the output from sudo lshw class disk. Jan 04, 2017 spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity. Many newer 2008 and later usb drive enclosures now also support sat scsiata command translation and therefore may also work. Other spin down idle disks with usb satapata adapter. Sleep is supposed to spin down and poweroff the electronics.
Intel rst does not support spin down of raid hdd disk. Hes asking about settingviewing the idle timeout before the hard drive is spun down by linux, not viewing how long is hard drive takes on average to spin up. Hi, i have a question regarding mdadm and disk spin down. Automatic disk standby using kernel diskstats and hdparm. 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. Controlling power settings for external usb disk drives. Even when i set the timeout to 5 seconds, the disk didnt spin down. I dont often access the data on the spinning hard drive so would like to be able to spin it down to both make it quieter and use less energy. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a given. This was observed with a toshiba p300 model hdwd120 hdd. Staggered spin up provides a simple mechanism by which sata hbas can sequence disk drive initialization and spin up. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community.