Power saving on file server
Here is how to configure external hard drive power management so that the drive spins up when the file share is active and goes into power-saving mode when it is not in use.
Here is previous video where we configured Samba server:
• setup a file share server on a Raspbe...
here's some commands:
sudo hdparm -B /dev/sda
smb.conf
[global]
Spin down idle drives after 10 minutes
idle spin delay = 600
[myshare]
comment = My shared folder
path = /mnt/mydrive
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0755
directory mask = 0755
valid users = pi
preexec = /usr/sbin/hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
