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I have a noisy hard drive I rarely use and want to silent. I would like to put it in sleep mode after some time (20 sec) when it's not mounted on the system.

The gnome-disks utility shows a "standby timeout" option: enter image description here enter image description here

The hard drive never gets to sleep automatically; I can manually put it to sleep/wake it up with the gear menu: enter image description here

Why does my drive doesn't automatically go to sleep? How can I make it go to sleep automatically after no activity?

Victor Lamoine
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This part from Put HDDs in standby after X minutes using hdparm doesn't work might help:

Is AHCI enabled in your BIOS? If not try turning it on and re-trying.

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  • Since you think that answer applies, the question should be flagged as a duplicate. – andy256 Dec 20 '15 at 20:51
  • @andy256 However, I think that's the only part that helps. I don't think any of the other stuff helps. –  Dec 21 '15 at 21:47
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    @bhargavxx: I'll ask a mod to convert this to a comment... – Fabby Dec 21 '15 at 23:06
  • While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. - [From Review](/review/low-quality-posts/504178) – Pilot6 Dec 22 '15 at 10:02
  • @Pilot6 Isn't that what I did? –  Dec 22 '15 at 21:55
  • @Pilot6 Isn't that what I did? –  Dec 27 '15 at 16:01