Hard Drive stops and starts again!

Kaiju · 13 Feb 2007 at 03:51

One of my SATA-II drives turns off on occasion (hear it spin down) and after clicking through my drives folders, I found that one drive pauses briefly while accessing a file, then I hear the drive spin up again before the file is then brought up. I'm using a molex too, so it's not really hot-swappable, yet the drive continues to function fine after the spin down.

Connection problem or possibly a Vista option that turns HDD's off after a while of inactivity?

michael baxter · 13 Feb 2007 at 04:05

A connection problem could create the symptoms you have. Try swapping the power connector?

Kaiju · 13 Feb 2007 at 04:06

Thanks mate, will mess about with the wires later and see what gives.

TheVoice · 13 Feb 2007 at 08:00

Have you got your power management settings in Windows set to turn off the hard-drives? Nothing wrong with doing that mind, as long as it's not a small amount of time like 5 minutes or something.

Kaiju · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:14

TheVoice said:
Have you got your power management settings in Windows set to turn off the hard-drives? Nothing wrong with doing that mind, as long as it's not a small amount of time like 5 minutes or something.

There I was joking about Vista turning off HDD's. I guess it's normal nowadays, even if i'm still using molex connectors on my HD's.

I had HD's turned off after 20mins.

Thanks for the heads up TheVoice.