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Spindown, as the name suggests is a free opensource command line utility to spin down your disks when no data is read or written of it. This should help save the precious energy and give the disks a longer life. It works by checking the number of blocks read from and written to the disks. When no blocks are read or written to the disk then it is considered idle. When a disk stays idle long enough spindown uses sg_start SCSI scripts to spin the disk down. It also works with usb disks and hotswappable disks because it doesn’t watch the device name (hda, sdb,Read More →

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Dell Laptops with Internal Microphones especially the Dell Vostro 1500 with Intel HDA drivers may not work by default. This could be caused by the microphones being disabled on the Mixers. This might work on other Laptop hardware but unfortunately, I don’t have access to another laptop. But, if you came across a laptop on which this worked then please post a comment and we can add it to the list of supported laptops. Also, if there was a different way with which you have fixed, please post that as well.Read More →