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Sleep all disks on Mac after 1 minute of inactivity
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If you've added a second hard drive to your Macbook and are finding that it spins up too often/long (i.e. noisy, eats battery)

Instruct the OS to put all disks to sleep after 1 minute of inactivity:

sudo pmset -a disksleep 1

tested on Apple MacBook Pro (Late 2011) - OS X 10.10.3

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