Any links to good hardware forums or pointers to external HDD enclosures with controllers that never go stand by?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2026-02-05 at 09:16 -0500, littlergirl at gmail.com wrote:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/39760/how-can-i-control-hdd-spin-down-time

It describes how to control the behaviour of HDDs. Unfortunately the
firmware of almost all SATA to USB controllers do misbehave, the HDDs
don't.