Computer randomly freezes for few seconds

Robert T.

Robert T.

Robert T.

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Hi,

Recently bought 2x 8TB Samsung HDD drives and my computer started to experience random freezes. They last for about 3-5 seconds and reason I believe it's related to HDD's is that it looks like that:
OS operations ceases for 3-5 secs, then I hear HDD spinning up, half a second later it freezes once more and after starting I hear once more HDD plate spinning up.
SATA ports were utilized by two different 3TB drives before swap and I reused same MB ports and same data and power cables.
On 3TB drives I had no stability issues at all, there was grand total of zero incidents of freezing or crashing on old ones, hence I suspect those Samsungs to have some sort of low power mode, sleep or something.
Installed Samsung's Disk Magician or whatever software they have to manage and monitor them, but have not seen any option to amend anything resembling such timeout.

I have a lot of HW in my machine, meaning it's heavy and located in place where I have less than optimal access once it's fully cabled up and this is not big enough of an issue to get it ripped out for maintenance, so question really is - anyone had similar issue?
Is there's software that can give me visibility of those spin-down times for hdd's?

They are ST8000DM004-2U9188 model.
Rest of spec is in signature.
 
Is this a windows machine? Try looking at the event viewer, might give an indication of the error. How are the drives formated, Partitions etc?
 
Hmm,

Yes, Win10, and Event Viewer shows me alerts about "TDR occurred on GPUID:100".
Usualy involves full freeze and reboot is required, in my scenario it's just start to respond again as normal...
I did upgraded my video driver to newest one recently, but I had no issues between upgrade of video drivers and HDD's, but as this is already few years old system - who knows..

Will reinstall video drivers and we'll see, that far I am prepared to go :)
 
You dont have samsungs magic thing where it says do this to make it faster so to speak in there have you, if so try turning it off.

In ur power plan maybe its got hdd go to sleep after x time, u can change that by editing a power plan. Or try max performance profile if not on already.
 
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It will be the windows power saving plan that turns off drives at a set time. You can set it to never (0) and they will not go to sleep and keep spinning so no freezing/waiting for them to spin up.


Annoying computer voice on video but gets straight to the point of what you need to do. @Robert T.
 
And the winner is: SkeeterUK, with Purgatory as honorable mention too.
It was power plan, had it set to 20 minutes for HDD's.
It must be specific way those Samsungs handle this setting, as I had - and still have - 4 mechanical HDD's in system, and before swap I had no issues like that.
 
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