I've got an external Seagate HDD hocked up to 18.04 LTS. Unfortunately, even after hours of inactivity the disk will not spin down.
Is there a setting in Ubuntu I haven't found to set an inactivity timer to automatically power down the USB drive when not in use?
I'm planing to setup a Plex media server on either the desktop or server version of Ubuntu.
Since the device is going to run 24/7 but won't be actually used more than an hour a day, lowering the idle power consumption is crucial to me.
Is there a difference between desktop and server Ubuntu 18.04 in terms of how much power they use during idle state?
Is there a way to disable the GUI in the desktop version of Ubuntu 18.04. so save on power consumption during idle states?
Since I won't have a monitor hooked up to the machine anyway, I'd rather manage Ubuntu through an SSH connection or Webmin.