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Faffer · 15 Jan 2008 at 10:38

I had that too. I just ended up setting them to never power down. Maybe they'll fix it in a patch one day.

bledd · 15 Jan 2008 at 11:07

i just let mine power down, saves a bit of electricity and they only power down when you're not using them anyway

TheVoice · 15 Jan 2008 at 11:11

I've also noticed that issue on Vista, on my PC. It's far too agressive in turning off HDDs, which is all well and good for a notebook, but it's annoying for a PC when you're going through files and it keeps stopping and starting.

eyetrip · 15 Jan 2008 at 11:11

I had the same problem. Just set my power saving option to performance. As the drives were constantly spinning up and down - at an unhealthy level.

Pottsey · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:13

One drive got so bad I unplugged it in Vista. Never did find out why Vista powered up and down 40times per min.

Kainz · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:23

This sort of happened to me when I installed Vista x64 recently. My 5 externals were all over the place and I just couldn't figure out why, so I returned to x32 and things were back to normal. Maybe SP1 may fix my odd issue.