{"id":533,"date":"2022-03-26T19:58:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrejacobs.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:22:59","slug":"spinning-down-seagate-hard-drives-in-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrejacobs.org\/linux\/spinning-down-seagate-hard-drives-in-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning down Seagate Hard Drives in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo by Denny M\u00fcller<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I noticed that none of my Seagate Hard Drives were spinning down while being idle. This is after I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 as well as installing completely new drives. For some reason or other hdparm<\/code> no longer seem to be working on my system.<\/p>\n

My Linux server runs 24\/7 and most of the time the hard drives are idle. So for me it is important to save as much power as needed while at the same time to not wear the drives out by constantly loading and unloading the heads.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Some of my scripts can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What have I tried?<\/h3>\n

This being Linux, I just know things are never going to be easy and most of the time you end up deep diving and learning a ton of stuff along the way (whether it is useful or not).<\/p>\n