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HDD spindown despite disabled powersave
recently I discovered that my HDD spins down quite frequently. As far as I can say, this is a new behaviour. I fear hardware damage from frequent spin down / spin up sequences (can this happen?).
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How can I identify what is preventing my HDDs from suspending?
I'm using Linux Ubuntu 20.04 with HWE.
I have two HDDs installed and those never go to sleep even if their usage is none for 5+ minutes (that's the setting in gnome Disks manager).
This used to work ...
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How to turn off a particular hard disk in a multiple disk computer system to save power? [duplicate]
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I have about 5 hard disks in my windows 7/8 machine. Since, the operating system is only installed in 1 disk, the rest 4 drives just consume power staying connected to the motherboard.
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