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 <alessio_e...@hotmail.com> 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 <c...@cwf1.com>:
> > 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
> >
> > http://cowboy.cwf1.com
> >
> > If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without
> > having to accomplish anything.
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