[mythtv-users] Spin down drives

Fa fayoeu at gmail.com
Thu May 12 01:01:38 UTC 2011


After set the uPNP refresh rate to 0 in mythtvsetup, the hdparm method
worked for me.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Neil Salstrom <salstrom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:44 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?
> >
> > Thanks and regards.
> >
> > --
> > Josu Lazkano
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>
> I've been using the spindown program successfully.  I typically spin
> down my "media" drive which contains movies, etc.  My main TV
> recording drive does not spin down.
>
> https://code.google.com/p/spindown/
>
> I've not tried to do this via hdparm.
>
> Neil
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