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peterog

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Apr 2, 2012
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Hi All,

Longtime reader, first time macrumors poster.

I have a Mac Pro with multiple HDDs holding all sorts of different goodies. I would like to manually set certain hard drives to spin down more quickly than others. Is there any way I can make this work?

I understand the pmset command and that might be the key to making this work but a simple "sudo pmset -a disksleep 20" would, I assume, hold all disks spinning for 20 minutes. There's two disks I'd like to have sleep nearly immediately, and 2 (including the Mac HD) I'd like to have spinning for around 20 minutes before sleeping after inactivity.

Any suggestions? Thanks all!
 
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