I'm running into the udisks-SMART-checks-prevents-drives-from-spinning-down issue, and I've tried all of the config-based fixes to be found by googling, to no avail. I also found this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047339 which is marked "fixed" for some reason. Also this one: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26508 which suggests the only workaround is to disable SMART altogether, or disable udisks altogether.

For those not familiar, the issue is that udisksd checks SMART status every 10 minutes, and this does not seem to be disableable nor settable to a different period. If you want your disks to spin down after > 10min, they never will. (< 10min works, b/c udisksd will skip the SMART check on a sleeping drive. But it also means potentially many more load/unload cycles, which is no good.)

Can someone more familiar confirm that there's no way around this? Also, if I'm willing to manually mount/unmount my drives, and roll my own SMART polling, will removing udisks altogether have any other adverse effects? That's the way I'm leaning, but never having heard of udisks before discovering it was keeping my drives awake, I'm not familiar with all aspects of it.

Linux Mint Petra
udisks2 2.1.0-4
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