Power down Hard drives - On a schedule

[newdamage1]

Has anyone ever seen a tool/utility to power down hard drives on a schedule?

What I would like to do is power down certain sections of my 2k3 server when not in use.

Example:
6a-6p Kids movies drive - ON
12p-11p Regular DVD, BD Volumes - ON
3p-11p Data volumes - ON
6a-2a Recorded TV volumes - ON

The rest of the time I would like them off.

I tried the standard tools in windows for drive power downs, but they wreak havoc with HTPC as when you pull up Recorded TV or the DVDlibrary, the powered down drives don't come back online fast enough and you get empty menus'. (not Wife/Kids friendly).


Anyone have ideas?

 

[thrawn86]

there was a program called Localcooling featured on lifehacker which allowed you to spin down hard drives on a schedule, but you couldn't select individual drives. the only program that I've seen allowing you to forcibly spin down drives (revosleep) didn't work well for me in vista, but yrmv.

either way, vista is pretty horrible with hd power management. its really really bad with wanting to spin up all my drives every 15 minutes randomly or every time I power down/standby/open explorer. I'm down to getting a front panel sata backplane at this point.