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On Sat, 2026-04-04 at 14:55 +0200, Wolfgang Klein wrote:
> And by the way: a disks spin down time can be set using "hdparm -S"

Yes, it is possible to control hard drives. The problem lies in the
firmware of the new controllers (USB-to-SATA) in the latest enclosures.
It used to be difficult to find enclosures that didn=E2=80=99t have this
problem, but some manufacturers did offer such enclosures. BTW none of
the HDDs or SSDs I=E2=80=99ve ever bought go into sleep mode. Standby mode =
was
always disabled by default.

I have 10 FANTEC DB-ALU3e enclosures with good firmware, but they are no
longer manufactured, and all recommendations for enclosures from other
companies that I received in mailing lists ot that are mentioned by
internet forums are obsolete. I have contacted the support of each of
these companies.

At least one support representative tried to pull the wool over my eyes.
They claimed that Windows could disable the controller=E2=80=99s standby mo=
de.
That=E2=80=99s nonsense, of course. There are, of course, various workaroun=
ds.

I=E2=80=99ll have no choice but to use also workarounds in the future, but =
I
actually dislike them, because a workaround for something that could
have been done right in the first place is always bullshit.

One of the many workarounds that other users use, funny enough, bash
mentioned in a FreeBSD mailing list:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: PS: Not that SATA to USB controller question again
Date: 02/06/2026 03:10:48 PM

[snip]

in /etc/rc.local:

/root/bin/dyski.sh &


/root/bin/dyski.sh:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
while true;do
  for x in fi1 data fi2 fi3;do
   dd if=3D/dev/label/$x of=3D/dev/null bs=3D4k count=3D1 >/dev/null 2>/dev=
/null
  done
  sleep 120
done

problem solved