hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power saving scheme as far as hard disks are
concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not being accessed after a defined
period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that would be really appreciated...
thanks in advance...
Danis Petkakis
02-07-2009, 12:13 PM
Remy Blank
Hard disk power save
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not
> being accessed after a defined
> period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that would be
> really appreciated...
If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not
containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more specifically the
-S option.
If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop), look at
app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools.
-- Remy
02-07-2009, 12:33 PM
Danis Petkakis
Hard disk power save
2009/2/7 Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com>
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not
> being accessed after a defined
> period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that would be
> really appreciated...
If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not
containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more specifically the
-S option.
If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop), look at
app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools.
-- Remy
does hdparm work on sata hard disks aswell? because i couldn't find such an option
in sdparm
Danis
02-07-2009, 04:13 PM
Dale
Hard disk power save
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com <mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com>>
>
> Danis Petkakis wrote:
> > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> > saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they
> are not
> > being accessed after a defined
> > period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that
> would be
> > really appreciated...
>
> If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not
> containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more
> specifically the
> -S option.
>
> If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop),
> look at
> app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools.
>
> -- Remy
>
>
> does hdparm work on sata hard disks aswell? because i couldn't find
> such an option
> in sdparm
>
> Danis
From the man page, right at the top no less. o_O
NAME
hdparm - get/set SATA/IDE device parameters
It should work for SATA to.
Dale
:-) :-)
02-07-2009, 04:57 PM
Danis Petkakis
Hard disk power save
ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if the disk is in sleep
mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up again...also
'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with 'hdparm -S12 /dev/sda'
but couldn't tell whether it is working or not...how can i make sure it actually works?
> * * > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> * * > saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> * * > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they
> * * are not
> * * > being accessed after a defined
> * * > period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that
> * * would be
> * * > really appreciated...
>
> * * If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not
> * * containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more
> * * specifically the
> * * -S option.
>
> * * If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop),
> * * look at
> * * app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools.
>
> * * -- Remy
>
>
> does hdparm work on sata hard disks aswell? because i couldn't find
> such an option
> in sdparm
>
> Danis
From the man page, right at the top no less. *o_O
NAME
* * * hdparm - get/set SATA/IDE device parameters
It should work for SATA to.
Dale
:-) *:-)
02-07-2009, 05:09 PM
Nikos Chantziaras
Hard disk power save
still mounted.
waking it up if it's
almost always something
put it too sleep. There's
umount it before you
Usually, you have to
Danis Petkakis wrote:
ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as
if the disk is in sleep
mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up
again...also
'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with
'hdparm -S12 /dev/sda'
but couldn't tell whether it is working or not...how can i make sure it
actually works?
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com
<mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com> <mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com
<mailto:remy.blank@pobox.com>>>
>
> Danis Petkakis wrote:
> > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing
as a power
> > saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they
> are not
> > being accessed after a defined
> > period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that
> would be
> > really appreciated...
>
> If your disk is only rarely accessed (i.e. a secondary HD, not
> containing the root filesystem), look at "hdparm", more
> specifically the
> -S option.
>
> If you would like to spin down your main HD (e.g. on a laptop),
> look at
> app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools.
>
> -- Remy
>
>
> does hdparm work on sata hard disks aswell? because i couldn't find
> such an option
> in sdparm
>
> Danis
From the man page, right at the top no less. o_O
NAME
hdparm - get/set SATA/IDE device parameters
It should work for SATA to.
Dale
:-) :-)
02-07-2009, 06:19 PM
Danis Petkakis
Hard disk power save
you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
2009/2/7 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
still mounted.
waking it up if it's
almost always something
put it too sleep. There's
umount it before you
Usually, you have to
Danis Petkakis wrote:
ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if the disk is in sleep
mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up again...also
'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with 'hdparm -S12 /dev/sda'
but couldn't tell whether it is working or not...how can i make sure it actually works?
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
> because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
>
If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Every time it
updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. I think some of the
gurus need to know what file system you are using and then go from
there. Spinning down a drive can be done but some situations won't
allow that to happen to well.
Dale
:-) :-)
02-07-2009, 06:31 PM
Danis Petkakis
Hard disk power save
in both drives i try to spin down i use ntfs as filesystem...
2009/2/7 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
> because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
>
If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. *Every time it
updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. *I think some of the
gurus need to know what file system you are using and then go from
there. *Spinning down a drive can be done but some situations won't
allow that to happen to well.
Dale
:-) *:-)
02-07-2009, 08:22 PM
Remy Blank
Hard disk power save
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as
> if the disk is in sleep
> mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up
> again...
That's why I mentioned laptop-mode-tools. If configured properly, it
ensures that the drive will not spin up a few seconds after having
stopped, by buffering all writes. For example, I have configured my
laptop to buffer writes for up to 10 minutes.
The drawback, obviously, is that I can loose up to 10 minutes of work if
I have a power interruption, but on a laptop, this never happens. I'm
not sure I would want to have that on a server, though.
Hard disk power save
