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Wow, this question takes me back to like the 00’s when laptops had battery life measured in minutes.
Hdparm: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hdparm
E.g:
hdparm -B 127 /dev/sdaI know it’s archwiki, but it’s the same on every distro
Don’t do that
Why?
Creates a bunch of extra wear on the drives. They’ll die very fast. Keep them spinning.
Spin down when not in use is normally default behaviour for most systems already, you don’t need to do anything.
You can use hdparm with the -S parameter to set the standby/spindown time for a hard drive.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hdparm#Power_management_configuration
umount maybe
