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Saxtheowl
Asked: 2019-09-25 05:48:16 +0800 CST

Forcing an external hard drive to run constantly

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Each time I want to use my usb external hard drive for the first time there is a short latency for allowing it to run, how to make it run at all time, so that while for example I watch a movie, stop and goes back to it it run instantly.

It would be best to have a script that stop it from shutting down for a certain period of time

scripts usb-drive

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  1. Best Answer

    You could use hdparm to do this. Run sudo hdparm -S /dev/sdx | grep level to see what the current spin-down time of the drive is. Replace /dev/sdx with your hard drive.

    You can change the spin-down time to 0 with sudo hdparm -S 0 /dev/sdx, changing /dev/sdx to the identifier for your hard drive.

    I do not recommend disabling the spin-down time, as it will decrease the lifespan of the hard drive.

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