Interesting link, thank you! I had completely misunderstood the problem.

2014-10-02 19:32 GMT+02:00 Rivendell Steve <[email protected]>:
> Hi Alessio,
>
> See http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ for information about WD greens and
> how to disable their power saving features.
>
> Steve.
>
> On 2 October 2014 17:24, Alessio Elmi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you both.
>> I used exactly Caviar Green by WD. They were the cheapest and now I
>> realise why.
>> I was looking for a bottleneck on the line when it's just the disks
>> that take a nap when they like. Shame on me!
>> I will search if I can change their behaviour.
>>
>> Alessio
>>
>> 2014-10-02 17:13 GMT+02:00 Cowboy <[email protected]>:
>> > On Thursday 02 October 2014 10:38:50 am Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
>> >> Sounds a lot like your disks are spinning down after a while. Verify
>> >> that
>> >> this is not the case: https://www.google.ca/search?q=sdparm+spindown
>> >
>> >  Western Digital has some inexpensive "green" drives.
>> >  Spin-down is exactly their claim to fame.
>> >  I don't know if it can be disabled, I just avoid "green" anything.
>> >  For the 1 watt per year they might save, just not worth it.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cowboy
>> >
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>> >
>> > If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without
>> > having to accomplish anything.
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