On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 11:28 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > *Subject: * Re: Cheap NAS > *From: * Paulf <pa...@quillandmouse.com> > *To: * Debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > *CC: * > *Date: * 2022-10-16 02:31 PM > > It's also worth noting: on my setup with a spinning rust laptop drive > > hooked via USB 3 to my RPi, the drive doesn't spin continuously > > (apparently). So on occasional use, I wait a couple of seconds for the > > drive to spin up before it can transfer at full speed. It's possible an > > SSD would solve this, but I had the laptop drive around already. > > > > A simple timed read/write script could take care of that.
Or try the hdparm command to change spindown time or other power saving parameters. I use this to deliberately spin down my NAS drive after 10 minutes so it uses a lot less power and to get rid of the noise. I do this at boot in /etc/rc.local # cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh # Set spindown time for disk if NAS1=`findmnt -n -o SOURCE /nas1/main`; then /sbin/hdparm -S120 $NAS1; fi Rather than hard code the disk as /dev/sdc I use 'findmnt' to get the disk name from the point it's mounted at (/nas1/main in this case). I also do this in my daily backup scripts in case the drive setting gets lost, as it seems to do some times. -- Tixy
