If you're anything like me, having a lot of old, mismatched 3.5" drives, you'd probably decide on getting a n USB enclosure like the Orico 9558u3, plug it into your RaspberryPI, edit your FSTAB to automount, then setup Samba to file share.
Well, that works until the Orico 9558u3 decides to sleep to save power when there's no drive activity. It can't help itself BECAUSE it's a feature. Now you lose access to your mount drives. Now what?
Lucky, we're in linux and we can simply fake drive activity and set it on a schedule.
We simply run a cronjob every 5 minutes to "touch" the disk. Hehehe.
Open your CronTab:
$ sudo crontab -e
With your text editor (nano or vi), add the following line:
$ */5 * * * * /bin/touch /your/hdd/mnt/here &>/dev/null
Add more lines for each drive you want to keep awake.
Lastly, restart your crontab.
$ sudo systemctl restart cron
$ sudo systemctl status cron
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