RobbH wrote: > Isn't this usually a setting in the external drive's firmware, rather > than on the computer? > > Searching for the opposite of what you want, I found this page, mostly > more than ten years old, but with one suggestion from last year: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5211/prevent-a-usb-external-hard-drive-from-sleeping > > What I think I understand from that is that hdparm might make it > possible for you to change the drive's settings. hdparm is available in > piCorePlayer extensions. > > Another suggestion in that thread was to attach the drive to a Windows > computer and change the settings there. > > I should probably mention that I also found articles that suggested that > drives may be designed to spin constantly, in which case spinning down > when not in use may actually shorten the drive's lifespan. > > My own experience when using a usb hdd for the LMS library was that the > drive would spin down after about five minutes of inactivity. It would > then take about a minute to spin up again, causing problems if LMS had > buffered a long track. I had to prevent spin down while LMS was playing.
The only issue I had which was caused by my HDD spinning down after a few minutes, was artwork going out of sync if a couple of consecutive Spotify tracks appeared in a Random playlist. The HDD could sleep during the Spotify tracks but I have never seen the HDD sleep while playing local tracks of any length. Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117139 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
