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Keep large HDD from always spinning up (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 19 hours ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Hello,

so I have quite a few drives in my desktop, but the main one that really lags my system down is a 12TB (seagate ironwolf, yes i know..). It seems to spin up and down often, then whenever I open a file in nemo I get freezeups when the drive has to spin up.

I know my 2 issues, it's an ironwolf, and I have it formatted as NTFS (because when I got it I was moving from windows to linux and kind of needed NTFS to still be there for windows. But now, I don't have a way to offload it all to reformat as EXT4.

Is there a way to keep it spun up for longer? My power saving shouldn't be doing anything with drives but i'm unsure.

I'm on Mint (yay noobs)

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[–] joulethief@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 17 hours ago

What's the issue with Ironwolf disks?