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    PS3 my ps3 HDD spins down/goes in standby about every 4 seconds if not enough data is asked for (?)

    Ok, interesting. I only have HGST disks. This might need more investigation.
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    PS3 my ps3 HDD spins down/goes in standby about every 4 seconds if not enough data is asked for (?)

    hdparm seems to write the changes to the hdd firmware as Berion mentioned. The spindown business stopped when I reinstalled the hdd to my PS3. As in the hdparm website guide you mentioned, I used hdparm -i /dev/hda hdb hdc hdd and so on to identify the correct hdd. Then when you are...
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    PS3 my ps3 HDD spins down/goes in standby about every 4 seconds if not enough data is asked for (?)

    I connected it to SATA bus of my desktop PC while making sure not to answer anything to windows attempts to overwrite the MBR..
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    PS3 my ps3 HDD spins down/goes in standby about every 4 seconds if not enough data is asked for (?)

    I just wanted to come and say that I fixed the same problem on my PS3 with the help of this program. Thanks guys! I used the setting -S 24 which according to wikipedia article gives 120 seconds spindown time. It is still not 120 seconds, but over a minute is much better than the 4 seconds.
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