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I was using hdparm on my rpi home server to turn off the disk without unmounting it. It was just a cronjob to turn it off at night, and it would stay off until

I was using hdparm on my rpi home server to turn off the disk without unmounting it. It was just a cronjob to turn it off at night, and it would stay off until needed. The first request would then take over 5 seconds to turn it on again, and it would remain on.

sgt 4y ago
You can set it to automatically spin down. No need for cron job.
- bombolo 4y ago
  But I don't want to pay the spin up price all the time.