TheHouseBunny Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Is there any way of disabling this feature? My two sata-disks spin down after a while and sometimes it makes explorer.exe to crash, and it takes a while before i can enter dirs on the hdds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houlty Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 power options > change plan settings > change advanced power settings > hard disk > turn off hard disk after > bingo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiggah Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I'm pretty sure this is in Power Options > Advanced Settings > Hard Disks. Change the default 20 mins to 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHouseBunny Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 Thanks alot =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Yea I hate this feature on desktops too, makes sense on battery power, why it would be default on mains power is beyond me - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Yea I hate this feature on desktops too, makes sense on battery power, why it would be default on mains power is beyond me - 1) Bring electricity bill down. 2) Save the planet when idle. 3) Reduce ware and tare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoko Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 1) Bring electricity bill down. 2) Save the planet when idle. 3) Reduce ware and tare. Having your hard drive spin up and down constantly does not reduce wear and tear; quite the opposite. As for the electric bill I doubt the the increase is even noticable, but I'll gladly pay the extra penny to not have to put up with the annoyance of it. I have an external hard drive, Samsung Story Station, that spins down after just a few minutes and takes an eternity to spin up again, lagging the whole system. Unfortunately it seems this function is built into the firmware and cannot be turned off. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 1) Bring electricity bill down. 2) Save the planet when idle. 3) Reduce ware and tare. 1. By an Unnoticeable amount 2. Huh ? 3. No - keeping it spinning will reduce wear and tear a great deal more than have it spin down and back up every 20 mins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I have an external hard drive, Samsung Story Station, that spins down after just a few minutes and takes an eternity to spin up again, lagging the whole system. Unfortunately it seems this function is built into the firmware and cannot be turned off. :( Had the same issue with my Drobo, the solution was a Cron task setup to dump a 50mb empty file onto the root of the drive and then delete it every few minutes. Worked perfectly. Don't see why it wouldn't work on Windows too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjoswald Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 You could also adjust your Indexing options to index a smaller amount of locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demilord Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 1) Bring electricity bill down. 2) Save the planet when idle. 3) Reduce ware and tare. Wears out the harddrive too.. u no its a mechanical thing.. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizure1990 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 But surely setting your hard drive to spin down after, let's say, an hour, makes sense? One would assume that by that point, you have left your computer and its ok for everything to go idle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houlty Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 But surely setting your hard drive to spin down after, let's say, an hour, makes sense? One would assume that by that point, you have left your computer and its ok for everything to go idle. that's what sleep mode is for, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 But surely setting your hard drive to spin down after, let's say, an hour, makes sense? One would assume that by that point, you have left your computer and its ok for everything to go idle. How so, if you have multiple harddrives in a system and you are only browsing or playing a game, then when you come to access a file on another drive you have to wait for it to spin up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizure1990 Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 that's what sleep mode is for, surely? What if I'm torrenting something to one drive, and the other isn't being used? I'm honestly asking, as this is how I have my computer set up currently, and I was wondering if it makes sense. My computer does go to sleep (well, hibernate actually) after a couple hours too, but certain background tasks prevent that, such as torrents, in which case I'd like as much of the computer to go into idle as possible, while still doing what needs to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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