meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

> Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk
> goes idle to prolong the lifetime ?
> Is it possible to do this with hdparm?

I have three external USB disks. Two of them are going to sleep
after a few minutes, one is always spinning.

All of them ignore the hdparm commands. That means I could not 
change any of the disk parameters with hdparm.

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Regards
wabe

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