Pogoplug V4 and esata

[ygator]

It appears the sata drive is always spinning down after use.
I'll issue a command and there is a delay and I hear the sata drive spinning up.
I issue a command a little bit latter < 1 minute and another delay and I hear the drive spinning up.
Is there something I can do about this? I tried hdparm -S 200 /dev/sda, but that did not fix the issue.

[WarheadsSE]

Is your root on that drive?

[ygator]

Yes, I am running off the sata drive with no other drives attached.

[WarheadsSE]

Then the hard drive is going to keep spinning up on a semi regular basis if there are any writes for logs, etc.

[ygator]

I get the spin up if it is spun down and needs to access something.
However, why is it basically always spinning down after being accessed.
It should stay spun up and only spin down when there is no activity for a certain amount of time.
(It seems like it is set to seconds now instead of minutes or hours).
I do understand it may then never spin down because of being root.
Is there a setting somewhere for this?
The only solution I can think of is start a background process that keeps accessing the drive so it does not spin down.
It can't be good for a drive to spin up for a couple seconds and then spin down again...rinse and repeat.
Plus it is painful to work with when almost every command you do is delayed by the spin up.

[Geoff]

Try "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda". You might have to install hdparm first.

[ygator]

That did the trick.

Thanks