openSeaChest VS rapiddisk

By the way, but I've discovered that Seagate has published the source code for openSeaChest:

> openSeaChest is a collection of comprehensive, easy-to-use command line diagnostic tools and programming libraries for storage devices that help you quickly determine the health and status of your storage product. The collection includes several tests that show device information, properties and settings. It includes several tests which may modify the storage product such as power management features or firmware download. It includes various commands to examine the physical media on your storage device. Close to 200 commands and sub-commands are available in the various openSeaChest utilities. These are described in more detail below.

https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest

If it’s a Seagate drive they publish openSeaChest which can update drive firmware on any Linux or FreeBSD system. https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest/releases

USB is tricky as it requires translation but sometimes you can do a passthrough. The full list of commands is listed in the SeaChest user guide. The ASMedia ASM225CM is using UASP so forcing SCSI might work, but it might be best to read or ask on the openSeaChest github which has an openSeaChest_PassThroughTest command for diagnosis.

Why don't you just go to https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest/releases/tag/v23.03.1 and download the binary?

Modern hard drives use EPC (extended power conditions) to manage power states. The drive goes into different idle states depending on how long it has been idle. You can modify these settings with SeaChest https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest/releases

Download the latest version of openSeaChest to your new container.

For anyone unaware (most people), seagate has an open source command line utility for drive stats and management that you can download and compile on any operating system. https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest You can use it for smart monitoring, secure drive erasure, power and idle/standby timer settings, and more depending on the supported features of the drive.

I found out about this project the other day: https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest it lets you directly set adjustable parameters on the drives and works on any OS.

I found that an alternative on Linux is RapidDisk. I installed it with no issues. However, I have to open terminal and enter a couple of commands manually to re-load the RAM drive as cache after boot, specifically:

Rapiddisk https://github.com/pkoutoupis/rapiddisk

As for ramdisk cache, what I was looking into is Primo Ramdisk which was mentioned a LOT around here, especially with high density plotting. Unfortunately that is only for Windows, but I found something similar for Linux: https://github.com/pkoutoupis/rapiddisk/ At this point I havent tried it, maybe indeed kernel module compiling will be enough, maybe not.