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    T410 with dual hard drives - spinning down when not in use.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Stavro Mueller, May 10, 2010.

  1. Stavro Mueller

    Stavro Mueller Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone! (again)

    I am the proud owner of a T410 with two hard drives - The main one with Windows 7, and an ultrabay adapter that holds a disk with linux. I have a couple questions:

    The main hard drive is spinning when I run linux from the ultrabay - is there any way to stop it? This sucks down my battery life like nothing else! I found the utility here: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/Spindown-37597.shtml
    That I think I can use to spin it down, just setting the time to 1 second or less. What I want to acheve here is having the "other" hard drive completely "off" when I am using a drive's OS. Is this possible? I have the "spin hard drives down when possible" checked in the power manager, but when I put my ear to the main drive it is still spinning. Any advice? I am running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

    Thank you :D
     
    Stavro Mueller, May 10, 2010
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