Caja waking HDD although not accessed

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I have an external HDD connected to my homeserver. It is shared by nfs with multiple clients.
The HDD goes into standby (spins down) after a certain inactivity time.

Now if I open caja on any client it wakes the HDD and caja is unresponsive until the spin up is complete.

How can I disable this behaviour? Same happens if I connect to the homeserver via ssh.

Would be awesome if someone knows how to prevent that. Google is not very helpful for this specific problem.

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I do not spin down my hdd’s, but there are a few different ways to do it.

hdparm -y /dev/hda  ##Standby mode
hdparm -Y /dev/hda  ##Sleep mode
hdparm -S 12 /dev/hda  ##Automatic spindown timeout

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/hdparm.8.html

You may not find a answer here, just thought I point it out. Good luck

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Yeah thanks for the link. Not exactly what I was looking for, but sure, it would be a solution to not spin down the hdd.
Did think about that already.
But as I use my hdd not often and I hate the noise it makes, I would rather have it not spin up unneccessarily.

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