Power Management for HDD's and screensaver

Hi all
Here some specs of my 'old' trusty sys:
Intel 2.26GHz
1GB DDR
Gfx nVidia V6200
1xATA(Seagate) + 4xSATA(Maxtor's) HDD's in the range of 200-300GB each
Samsung SyncMaster 930BF
LiteOn and NEC DVD/CD reader/writers
The HDD's brings me to a little question, in the past (before ArchLinux) i've used to have power managment to put the 4 SATA HDD's (S.M.A.R.T supported) to sleep after 10 or 15 minutes inactivity or so. Is there something similar for ArchLinux? A GUI for Xfce4 for that kind of power management would be cool but is not nescessary.
And I was thinking of a cool screensaver, any sugestions?
I thank you'll in advance for any suggestions and advices.
Last edited by techkey (2008-07-08 06:32:02)

As for the screensaver, the GLMatrix screensaver is pretty nice if you have direct rendering working.
I think you can use hdparm to enable hard disk power management. It is a CLI-only tool, but why not use CLI? Tbh, it is much easier for me to do configuration stuff in CLI rather than use a GUI for it.

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