Spindown

Spindown is a daemon that can spindown idle disks and so saving energy and giving the disks a longer lifetime. It works by checking how many blocks are read and written from the disks. When no blocks are read or written the disk is idle. When a disk stays idle long enough spindown uses sg_start... Platforms: *nix

MoreAmp is an FREE open-source audio player for Linux. Audio player loads memory or vdisk with many files so the hard disk can spindown while playing. wxWidget on OS9/X win32 unixX11/GTK. Play/create ogg flac wav aif mp3 aac. Play cd wma mp1/2 m2a m4a. Drag&drop, repeat loop, 31-band eq, many... Platforms: *nix

ATAidle sets the idle timer on ATA hard drives, so they spin down when the period of inactivity has expired. To use it, you must be running FreeBSD with ATAng, so basically FreeBSD 5.1 or newer - alternatively, you can also run it on Linux - its been tested with kernel 2.6.1, but should work... Platforms: *nix