Debian :: Hard Drives Stay Active / Idle

I am trying to switch over my NAS from Win7 x64 to Debian 8.x Jessie. I have run into a few issues with the power management. When Idle my NAS should be consuming 25W, however it was consuming much more. The more hard disks I mounted, the higher the wattage.

I have followed a few tutorials but that has only been a partial succes.

Code: Select all # hdparm -C /dev/sd[b-y]

/dev/sdb:
 drive state is:  active/idle

/dev/sdc:
 drive state is:  active/idle

/dev/sdd:
 drive state is:  standby

/dev/sde:
 drive state is:  active/idle

/dev/sdf:
 drive state is:  standby

All the drives can spindown but they are not doing that now that they are mounted.

hdparm:
Code: Select all/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103UJ_S13PJ9AQC12015 {
apm = 127
keep_features_over_reset = on
spindown_time = 60

[Code]....

Now there are two suggestions I found but both I was unable to implement.

The first suggestion was to mount using "noatime". However I do not know how to rewrite fstab because I am using ntfs for now (at least untill I get it working).

Code: Select all# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#
/dev/mapper/bugattidebian--vg-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

[Code] .....

Not sure where to add the noatime there...

Also I am using samba on all those drives. This guide suggested a code change but the example does not line up with my configuration script.