HDD keeps spinning up

[blxkspell]

Is there any possibility to monitor the apps which access my external HDD as I enabled standby for hard drives in the energy saving settings BUT they keep spinning up randomly (every 5-10 min).

This is very annoying because of the noise and it certainly cant be to good for a HDD to spin up/ down - up/ down ... all the time.

I have even set them to be unmounted with Paragon actually as I don't need them in macOS (they are Windows NTFS drives).

Hope there is a possibility to completely turn them off.

[chris1111]

My opinion is the best way is create a LaunchAgents with a simple app create with an Applescript

On that way the Volumes will be Unmount at each Login

Your only have to edit the name of the volume in the Applescript then Save

 

Now put this app on your Applications

 

Put the com.Unmount.plist on Root volume ➣ /Library/LaunchAgents

Double click to Executable Agents (You can see the contant of the script, by opening with textedit)

                                                                  ⬇︎

#!/bin/bash
# This is useful for loading launch daemons and agents.

cd /Library/LaunchAgents 
sudo chown root:wheel com.Unmount.plist
sudo chmod 644 com.Unmount.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.Unmount.plist


exit 0

 

Attaching here the necessary files

I just test right now and it work 

com.Unmount.plist.zip

Executable Agents.zip

Unmount.zip

Edited May 23, 2019 by chris1111

[chris1111]

Another easy way is to create a LoginHook

Put the attaching script in Home 

Edit the script with the name of Windows volumes

 

#!/bin/bash
diskutil Unmount  /Volumes/"Windows-10"

 

Open the Terminal.app and Type this

chmod +x ~/LoginHook.sh

 

sudo mv ~/LoginHook.sh /usr/local/bin/LoginHook.sh

 

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /usr/local/bin/LoginHook.sh

 

 

Reboot 

LoginHook.sh.zip

Edited May 23, 2019 by chris1111

[blxkspell]

Thanks for the detailed explanation but this unfortunately doesnt help me out... The paragon software already unmounts my drives after login.

In fact some random apps still try to access them randomly even they are unmounted and dont show up in finder.

[chris1111]

3 minutes ago, blxkspell said:

Thanks for the detailed explanation but this unfortunately doesnt help me out... The paragon software already unmounts my drives after login.

In fact some random apps still try to access them randomly even they are unmounted and dont show up in finder.

delete the app use this 

LoginHook

 

[blxkspell]

Ok thank you again for your help. But as I said, they are ALREADY unmounted. No need to unmount them twice. My problem is that:

 

15 minutes ago, blxkspell said:

 

In fact some random apps still try to access them randomly even they are unmounted and dont show up in finder.

 

 

So what I need is to restrict the OS or any stupid apps to randomly access my HDDs 

 

 

 

[chris1111]

3 minutes ago, blxkspell said:

Ok thank you again for your help. But as I said, they are ALREADY unmounted. No need to unmount them twice. My problem is that:

 

 

So what I need is to restrict the OS or any stupid apps to randomly access my HDDs 

 

 

 

Your are using Paragon to Unmount

this is the problem because the Drive is use by paragon and all Sh...it stuff....

Dont use paragon to unmount the drive

[blxkspell]

well it doesnt make any difference. I disabled paragon and still the drive spins up every 5-10 min being unmounted

[blxkspell]

I have found out what spins up my HDD all the time!

It seems to be the HWMonitor app which is running all the time!

 

The SMART check thing causes my problem as it was set to 10min. The max time is 30min which is quite better but still annoying. Is there a way to completely disable it?

[chris1111]

Are you sure you have not enable the SMART in BIOS ?

I have always this setup disable