HDD power power management

dayloon · 2 Nov 2006 at 15:21

Not sure if this is related to my motherboard or HDD so i thought i'd post it in general.

I've got a DFI NF4 Ultra-D motherboard and western digital SATA-II HDD. Although XP is set to power down my HDD after 1 hour, it doesn't do this. Even after a rebuild. I don't know why. The BIOS has got various power management options but i dont know if they are relevant or not, I always thought windows would do the power management if you set it up.

Uhtred · 2 Nov 2006 at 16:16

i tend to find only non system drives go to sleep. xp seems to keep my main drive awake and ticking away doing nothing very much.

Captain Fizz · 2 Nov 2006 at 16:20

Also, if you use your PC daily - Keeping the drives spinning increases their lifespan.

The most stress is put on a HDD when it spins up from 0 RPM -> 7200 RPM.

So it's good that they don't sleep.

dayloon · 2 Nov 2006 at 17:12

Captain Fizz said:
Also, if you use your PC daily - Keeping the drives spinning increases their lifespan.

The most stress is put on a HDD when it spins up from 0 RPM -> 7200 RPM.

So it's good that they don't sleep.

Ah ! I didn't know that. Maybe i'll just forget it then