Power options and hard disks

Vertigo

Vertigo

Vertigo

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Can someone explain something to me?

On laptops/netbooks, you can configure the power options to shut down the hard disk after a period of inactivity, which is sensible. My question is, on an OS like Windows 7, the hard drive never seems to stop being accessed, as even if no foreground application is using it, Windows seems to sieze the opportunity to do indexing or other internal maintainance.

I've configured mine to power down the disk after five minutes but I've left it untouched for longer than this and the drive is still spinning. Am I missing something? Does the drive ever spin down?
 
More epic fail from MS then. If they're going to design OSes which never allow the drive to idle, what on earth is the point in putting such an option in the power management settings :rolleyes:
 
No background processes that I can see, just seems to be Windows itself continually prodding the disk for whatever reason.

As for yours spinning up when you move the mouse - that just smacks of more MS fail to me. If the disk has powered off I'd expect it to stay that way until you actually access it, not merely move the mouse :)
 
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