Thanks, I’ve used power plans in the past to spin down HDDs and it worked quite well. The only issue was these 18TB Toshiba enterprise disks are very reluctant to spin down and they click at idle, which is what caused me to start upgrading to SSD.
Aside from noise and power use, I would really like to properly power off the disk to isolate it from the machine, to avoid damage by malware or my fat fingers. I know that physically removing it from the machine is the best way to do this as it would also avoid power spikes and such but I would rather not have to remember to put the disk in and remove it.
Thanks, I’ve used power plans in the past to spin down HDDs and it worked quite well. The only issue was these 18TB Toshiba enterprise disks are very reluctant to spin down and they click at idle, which is what caused me to start upgrading to SSD.
Aside from noise and power use, I would really like to properly power off the disk to isolate it from the machine, to avoid damage by malware or my fat fingers. I know that physically removing it from the machine is the best way to do this as it would also avoid power spikes and such but I would rather not have to remember to put the disk in and remove it.