My hard drive wakes up every hour and I can not find the reason

[darwindesign]

When the drive goes to sleep does the light stay on or does it blink? I spend quite a bit of time looking into this subject a while back. This post is probably the info you need…

Power settings with External Drive

Final update on this topic, and i’m only going to give the TLDR version. I’m fully satisfied that the way the power settings are configured in OSMC are the least bad settings available. Most drives should spin down just fine (after 20 min of inactivity) and the ones that don’t it is a matter of debate on if the drive or Debian to blame (it is probably the drive). With my particular drives I was testing (WD MyBook and Easystore) the ones that were never messed with sleep just fine with a nice bl…