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

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware that drives nowadays do it on their own,
> that's good to know.
>
>>
>> > . With hdparm you can configure this.
>>
>> I've done that and it works well.
>
> Is there a worthwhile benefit to setting hdparm above and beyond what the
> drives themselves do?

You need to use hdparm to configure the spindown time. Look at the -S
parameter in the docs

http://linux.die.net/man/8/hdparm

Also remember that on reboot the hdparm settings will go away so put
your hdparm command in a startup script.

John