[mythtv-users] External storage spin up time - mythfrontend sometimes times out

[Saul]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:04:02 +0100
Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Dave Day <david.scott.day at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My question is this:  Do modern USB drives spin up quickly enough
> > so I won't have to worry about it, or do I need to tell these drives
> > not to spin down (if that is possible)?  
> 
> I'd be surprised if interface type had much effect - it's the speed
> of the drive itself that's going to restrict spin-up times. Can the
> timeouts be adjusted, that would probably be a better way round the
> problem.

OS should be in charge of spindowns, not HDD firmware, I used idle3ctl
to disable spindowns on my WD Red drives.

http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Cheers, Saul