External hard drive randomly spinning up while not being used

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Hello,

I’m setting up an OSMC media center in my bedroom. Two external hard drives are connected to the Raspberry Pi 2.
Because it’s located in my bedroom, I don’t want to be disturbed by any sound while I sleep.

Even though I am not using Kodi, nor something that could induce hard drive activity like running a torrent client, my hard drives randomly wake up from sleep and spin up.

Is there a way for me to determine what causes the drives to spin up in order to fix it ?

Thank you,

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It could be thumbnails it’s scrolling through and loading from the hard drive

3

Could be ghosts.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install iotop

will give you iotop which is a great way of monitoring disk activity

Sam

4

just to be sure it’s the HDD and not a temperature triggered fan?

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Did you manage to fix the problem?