[mythtv-users] Hard-drive spindown when idle?

[John Drescher]

> Have been searching and seeing many scripts and methods to spin down idle
> hard drives, and figured I'd check with the folks here if anyone does this
> presumably with their Myth system and what method you use?

You do not need any script to do that. Modern hard drives have the
ability to do this on their own. With hdparm you can configure this.

> I'm interested in setting it up because I need access to my system
> throughout the day for business remotely, but not the media which is on the
> bigger disks, so figure I might as well set them to spin down being idle.
> Thanks for any help

The biggest problem with spindown in mythtv is getting mythtv to stop
looking at drives periodically. Unless something changed recently one
requirement was to disable the upnp server in mythtv.

John