You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although some respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time in WD drives but not Seagate, but both go to sleep when instructed. I have an old Iomega ix2-200 running Arch ARM.I use 'hdparm' to instruct the drives to sleep for exactly the same reasons as you.
The package is 'hdparm' in Debian.Simply (as root) enter 'hdparm -y /dev/sdx to manually put the drive to sleep. I believe 'hdparm -s ' allows you to set the sleep time, but the options will be shown to you if you enter 'hdparm -h' Hope that helps! -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 12 Nov ʼ20, às 12:18, Thomas Anderson escreveu: > Hello List, > > I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). > > The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my > local network. > > They are not constantly accessed, and performance/speed is irrelevant. > > I would rather they idle/sleep when not being directly accessed. I know > they are supposed to spin, and spinning them up and down is not good for > them. But, in my particular use case, it seems acceptable. > > Am I off base? > > Can anyone recommend a way to do this in debian? Is there a program that > will allow me to set this? > >
