vista h/d spin down prob

9zap · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:25

Hi there,
Recently upgraded to vista ultimate 64 but my spare storage drive is spinning up and down like every 10 seconds when its not even being accessed...not all the time but has bouts of say doing it for 10 minutes then stops I need to fix this before it breaks my drive...and its so annoying..the main boot drive is 2x raps in raid 0 the storage drive is a wdaaks 16mb 500gb sata...is there an option under power management or any where else to stop or turn of spin down>?

dr. sarf · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:28

Is it doing this mainly after startup?

9zap · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:38

no its left on all the time...and its random tbh theres an option in cp/power to turn of h/d spin down but i cant find it...im told its there....thats what i need to find

james.miller · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:44

cp >> power options >> Change Plan Settings (under whichever plan you are using) >> change Advanced Power Settings >> Hard disk

change that to 0

9zap · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:58

thanks james....cudent see the never option coz i never set the minutes to 0 but when i did that the "never" option appeared...hopefully that will stop it from spinning up/down...have to wait and see... theres only 1 setting for all drives then not individual settings?

something daft already!! · 19 Oct 2007 at 12:26

My USB drive does this all the time too. I have already set the power "not to sleep" ever, yet it still does it. It also did it on XP so I think its the way the dirve and usb interface work. I generally switch the drive off when I am not using it.

DCat · 6 Dec 2007 at 21:11

9zap / others - did you ever find a fix for this issue ... i have it too

9zap · 7 Dec 2007 at 00:50

DCat said:
9zap / others - did you ever find a fix for this issue ... i have it too

yeh sorted it just change value to 0 on sl;eep time

DCat · 7 Dec 2007 at 09:10

Change to "0" or "Never"?

Does this mean the HDD never spins down at all - I imagine that might be better than spinning up and down all the time but still far from ideal?

9zap · 7 Dec 2007 at 09:15

once you change the value to 0 and apply... check back the the never option is there select that job done..keeps your drives spinning all time dont have them spin up and down

IAmATeaf · 7 Dec 2007 at 10:23

I get something similar on my new laptop, even when nothing is running there's disk activity for a second or so every 5 or so seconds. Tried turning a load of things off such as indexing and checked the power scheme but it still does it, it's really bloody annoying.

DCat · 7 Dec 2007 at 11:39

Ah, you problem sounds different to just spinning up and down? Is your disk is continually "thrashing"? If so, turn off "System Restore" points and it should be OK after a reboot. I've been able to re-enable Indexing without much probelm after this.

I forget where to find System Restore turn on/off, but google it and you'll see if you can't find it.

In the unlikely event this doesn't work ... disable and set to manual "Superfetch" as well.