Update-smart-drivedb... probably no longer compatible

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@kriticar

If you don’t use smartctl, then what mechanism do you use for spinning down hard drives?

I find it strange that you asked this question when @DBMandrake already 4 months ago told you exactly how it is being done in OSMC with hdparm.

External USB HDD is not spinning down

We automatically run hdparm on external drives when they are automounted: However not all external USB drives support this, so it’s highly likely that your new drive doesn’t support the spindown commands sent by hdparm. I have two external 2.5" drives and neither one of them supports spinning down with hdparm. Try running the following command and see whether it reports an error: sudo /sbin/hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda

WD Green drives are quite special in their power management and you might google a bit around that topic.