SMART Status and Disk Spin Down

“hdparm -S240 /dev/sdX”

At the CLI tells device X to spin down after 20 minutes.

The time is a multiplication of 240 x 5 = 1200 seconds = 20 minutes.

There is an explanation here:

I think hdparm is part of the standard Rockstor package.

Will have to be set for every drive after each reboot, which can be dificult to automatize as drives have a tendency to change letters upon reboot.

I do it manually after each reboot, which thankfully is relatively seldom for my system.

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