[mythtv-users] Spin down drives

[John Drescher]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44 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?
>

I believe hdparm is still the tool to use since the actual spinning
down can be done by the drive itself. The big problem with this
however is getting MythTV and the rest of your system (like gnome) to
stop trying to access drives when it does not need to.


John