Re: Recent issue with hddtemp.

[Tim]

On Fri, 2024-08-16 at 12:30 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> And having a hdtemp command/smartctl command spin up a drive to ask
> its temp is a power wasting command.  The drive stays spun up for
> several minutes and uses around 5w more while it is spun up.  So one
> cannot argue with it returning a "disk is sleeping" result.

You also want to consider what do you want the temperature for.

Surely a sleeping drive oughtn't to be a worry about whether it needed
cooling?  Unless it's packed into some RAID frame, in which case *that*
ought to have continuous cooling running.