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. Aggressive power saving settings allow the hard disk drive to stop its spindle motor and park heads more frequently, which allows saving as much energy as possible, but put stress on mechanics and leads to delays on drive reads caused by. Hdd wont spin downsleep in windows 10 microsoft community. Linux have different tools to manage disk devices and hard disks. Hi i have 2 drives connected to my cuboxi 4pro imx6.
Expected behaviour support set harddisk spindown time. I made the change and recompiled hdparm and it worked fine. The emc tech we contacted told us to leave the san running. Note that the hdparm man page warns, that older drives might use different values, so apply the command once manually and check the output before putting the command in a script. 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 a word of caution. Time to make hdparm configurations permanent edit the configuration file. Invalid argument for some other drives, the hdparm command is acknowledged but the drive do not respect the parameters either apm or spin down timer. 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. 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. Power consumption is reduced by adjusting spin speeds and disabling internal components when not in use. If you are in a rhel os you can use yum install hdparm to download and install the hdparm utility on your system.
I also have a 500gb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 9 seconds of inactivity. Solved with hdidle configuring nfig to spindown hdds. It allows to increase performance and sometimes to increase stability. However, setting the spindown time to any value works. The highest degree of power management is attained with a setting of 1, and the highest io performance with a setting of 254. 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.
Usb power management is disabled in the default raspbian kernel but the device might still support it. Instead of s180 for 15 minutes, you can also choose one of the other values underneath. 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 save power. Drives western digital sdc to sdf is my raid 5 array. Wd blue mobile spins down too early or not at all and. The utility also allows users to test disk readwrite performance with cached and buffered modes. The contents of this file will be sent to the drive using the sata download. From the manual man hdparm on the command line s set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. It took more than three hours or so to actually erase the 1 tb drive. Introduction to hdparm the hdparm package contains a utility that is useful for obtaining information about, and controlling ataide controllers and hard drives. Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks. Ive been able to set hdparm b1 devsda without any problem, and the drive effectively stands by after few seconds.
Hard drive standby time impossible to set in hdparm. Type the following command into the console and note the uuid of the hard drive. On linux, the traditional way to control disk standby and power management is to use hdparm. Description hdparm provides a command line interface to various kernel interfaces supported by the linux satapatasas libata subsystem and the older ide driver subsystem. I have tested this with my two samsung drives, and they both report apm to be disabled. I want my drive to spin down and enter in standby mode, but i dont want this to happen too often, so i was trying to set a standby time of about one hour. With the software spindown solution, all the hard drives still power on when the computer starts. Hopefully it will be included in man hdparm in the future.
The drives itself have no automatic spindown configured verified. Possible settings range from values 1 through 127 which permit spindown, and values 128 through 254 which do not permit spindown. Are there drives that really only spin down if apm is enabledset to 1127. Omv downloads for xu4hc1 have more than doubled since hc1 is available. Put the drive into idle lowpower mode, and also set the standby spindown timeout for the drive. Permanently configure hard drives to spin down after a. I wrote a little shell script to check the activity on the hdd and do a spin down after 20 minutes without activity. In this case, it would probably be safe to spin the disks down and save power and the environment will thank you. Tiny script that do wonders for my lenovo g710 laptop. 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. I was interested in 1 automatic hdd spin down as well as 2 automatic shut down suspend, acpi s3 after some idle time.
For testing purposes i set cycletime to 15 and idletime to 60, but you shouldnt use these values on a regular system, as they would lead to a significant number of disk spin updown cycles per day. This package is known to build and work properly using an. With the physical switch you can leave the power turned off to them completely until you want to use them. Im using xfce and been trying to find a solution to automatically spin down my hdd hard drive for some time now. Spin down hard disks with udev and hdparm not working. Using hdparm for sata drives in order to update drive firmware using hdparm, you will need to first install it onto your linux system either by downloading a tar ball and building it yourself or by using yum. Spin down and manage hard drive power on raspberry pi. Many newer 2008 and later usb drive enclosures now also support sat scsi. So ive tried to use udev and hdparm and have created following file. 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.
Spin down idle drives in ubuntu server to save electricity. There are cheapersmaller switches, i just posted that one as an example. He said we would have fewer drives fail due to heat than if we shut down and restarted once the work was completed. What is the spindown time how long does it take to go into powersaving spindown mode for the wd 2tb elements portable usb 3. The newer versions of hdparm have addressed this timeout issue and now use the estimated time reported by the drive plus five minutes. The value of 0 disables spindown, the values from 1 to 240 specify. This list should help everyone always wondering which value to use for the hdparm s flag. Some options may work correctly only with the latest kernels. Hdparm can get information about hard disk, change writing intervals, acoustic management, dma settings etc.
But be cautious while changing settings about the hard disk drive. Dma mode, although most bioss should do this for you at boot time. Possible settings range from values 1 through 127 which permit spindown, and. In the end the security password was reset to null as it should be. I added the following lines to nfig but only the usb drive spins down which is on sdb. This is a great disk idle utility for western digital hard drives in linux.
I issue the standby signal with the following command. The wd black internal hard drive doesnt have a utility that can be used to adjust the drives spin down time. That is great for saving power but not for disk drive durability. Name hdparm getset hard disk parameters synopsis hdparm flags device description hdparm provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock linux ataide device driver subsystem. How can i find out the current drive spindown time. 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.
Every apm value sataide device parameters synopsis. Mac os x has an option to keep hard drives spinning for quick file access, or to save power and reduce noise. It can set parameters such as drive caches, sleep mode, power management, acoustic management, and dma settings. To make hdparm spindown the device you can use the b flag. On windows machines hard drives automatically sleep and spin. The utility allows users to view and change sataide diskdrive hardware parameters like drive caches, sleep mode, power management, acoustic. Unfortunately, since youre using a third party application hdparm to adjust the drives spin down, were unable to provide any information on how to properly set the parameters on the utility.
Open the hdparm config file with the text editor nano. With this problem is solved and have maximum perfomance at the same time. Inside have a 1tb wd disk that went too fast to idle 10sec and caused spin updown all the time. Run same command on pi3 with same usb hard disk, everything works fine. Topic 1 was for one out of my 3 different toshiba hdds not running out of the box, i. According to the ataatapi7 v1 the specification that manufacturers should follow to be ata compliant, there is no way to know the current spin down times, so hdparm wouldnt be able to. Hdparm command line performance tuning and benchmarking. Next, scroll down to the bottom and then press the insert key once this will take us into edit mode and.
I am trying to get them to spin down because they will only be. As soon as the hard drive is accessed it should start to spin again. Ddwrt forum view topic hdd spin down startup script. I want to spin down my harddrive with hdparm in ubuntu. I have an asus h97me motherboard and on the asus website the official driver is 14. Spin down idle hard drive raspberry pi stack exchange.
How to spin down some hard drives windows 10 forums. This should enforce a standby after 5 seconds and the next command should show all the drives in standby mode. I have a 1tb elements portable, and it stops spinning after 10 minutes of inactivity. If i do hdparm y devsdg devsdh the drives spin down but after 25 minutes they become active again. To spin down a hard drive after x minutes of inactivity issue the following commands. Hi folks, i tried to give my networkstorage some breaks and failed at the cron setup. The program features automated scripts for changing advanced power management apm settings easily via start menu shortcuts and startup entries for. Got wdc wd5000lmvw11veds0 as external usb hdd and it spins down after being idle for some time. Values between 1 and 127 allow spinning down of the hard drive. I use sdparm to spin down because hdparm doesnt recognize my hdd.
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