[mythtv-users] Spin down drives

[Neil Salstrom]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I have a litle HTPC/server with 2 SATA drives. The first one is
> 2.5 160GB with EXT3 and the OS. The second one is a 2TB drives with
> XFS and stores livetv, recordings, videos, music and images (all
> multimedia files).
>
> Some years ago, I used hdparm to stop my IDE drives on a old server. I
> want to do the same, stop the 2TB drive when it is not used.
>
> Before start to search, I want to know your experience or suggestions.
> Is there any other software like hdparm?
>
> Thanks and regards.
>
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> Josu Lazkano
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I've been using the spindown program successfully.  I typically spin
down my "media" drive which contains movies, etc.  My main TV
recording drive does not spin down.

https://code.google.com/p/spindown/

I've not tried to do this via hdparm.

Neil