Spin down discs

[blind Pete]

Nils Kassube wrote:

> Boudi Luna wrote:
>> I've been searching through the settings of 14.04 and just like in
>> 13.10, there's no option to have the discs spin down when idle. Is
>> there a way to do this?
> 
> I don't know about a GUI method but you could use the hdparm command on
> the command line. It would be a command like
> 
> sudo hdparm -S 60 /dev/sda
> 
> in a terminal. That would give a timeout of 5 minutes. Please replace
> the device name /dev/sda if necessary. If you want to use another
> timeout, here is an excerpt of the "man hdparm" command:
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