Harddrive issue? Music pauses then drive spins up, music resumes.

David_VI

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Noticed this on my PC, not sure when it started, I don't use it much.

Playing music on Winamp occasionally the music will pause, I'll hear my harddrive spin up and then the music will continue. Checked the power settings and all seems okay.

Tried playing music from another drive and that doesn't produce the same results. Tried Media player and got same result. On Windows 10, this definitely happened since upgrading but might just be a coincidence.

Could this be a failing drive or anything else? What do I do to eliminate other possibilities?
 
wazza300 said:
could be powering up from sleep mode? can turn it off in power saving profile/advanced settings
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I've checked this previously and it's on high performance. Surely it would affect all drives if it going to sleep?

And surely if it's already playing music why would it go to sleep?
 
Part of the music could be in cache, which is why you initially hear it. In power options, change the plan settings, then change advanced power settings and make sure the hard drives don't power down after a certain while.

I wouldn't worry though, your drives aren't failing, this is normal behaviour.
 
What make/model of drive?

Some manufacturers have specific tools to control the power settings on their drives.
 
David_VI said:
I've checked this previously and it's on high performance. Surely it would affect all drives if it going to sleep?

And surely if it's already playing music why would it go to sleep?
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If it's already playing, this shouldn't happen.

If you were playing earlier, then paused for ~30 minutes (letting the drives sleep), then resumed the pause, I'd expet a few seconds to play, then the hard drive would spin up and resume after a short gap in the music.


Check Event Viewer for Disk errors under the System tab. You can use the 'filter' tool to do so.
 
Cheers for your replies, i'll look into what you suggested.

I believe it's a Samsung spinpoint. Have a few drives so it might not be, will check.
 
I swapped it with another drive and same result.

No other drives are doing it but I swapped the replacement drive onto the same cable as the previous. The drive was previously in an enclosure and never had this issue. So what could it be? The sata cable? The motherboard?

Just to eliminate it.. I did clone the drive, but that wouldn't also clone an issue like this would it?!
 
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