On 10/7/18 9:29 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
Is it safe to put a hard drive on sleep?
Depends on your use-case.
SW-wise it is pretty save to "put to sleep" not frequently used drives
("data"/"backup" drives).
"Putting to sleep" drives hosting system-partitions or partitions
hosting your /home/<user> directory often is not possible.
"Putting to sleep" drives, which are hosting seldomly accessed "data"
partitions works.
HW-wise you should check if your drive-hardware is suiteable to be
frequently "put to sleep/woken up". Most NAS- or server-class HDDs are
not, most desktop/notbook drives are.
I will have to wake it up, later.
(I need to minimize the power consumption during a period of time)
I am using the approach described in
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hdparm
to powerdown drives hosting "data" and "backup" partitions.
Ralf
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