SSD (puzzling)

[skotish|]

Need help getting too the bottom of this on my computer this is where you guys come in

I have 1 kingston ssd 64gb and 1 samsung 500gb hdd the operating system is windows 7 64 and it is installed on the ssd now for the annoying part can anyone tell me why every time i access programs on my ssd i have to wait on the hhd spinning up !!! ?

It is really doing my head in

Any thoughts and help would be welcomed cheers

 

[Zarf]

Are you sure that the OS and Apps are installed on the SSD? What about the page file? Unplug the 500GB drive and see what happens.

 

[ntemples1]

I think you have to tell windows not to spin down hard drives that haven't been used for a while, i think its in the power options, might be wrong though...

 

[skotish|]

Are you sure that the OS and Apps are installed on the SSD? What about the page file? Unplug the 500GB drive and see what happens.

I checked everything like page file and where my apps were and all apart from my steam games are on the ssd.I unplugged the Samsung hdd everything worked as normal just wondering what or why soomething on the OS is making a call to the hdd to spin up even when its not used

I think you have to tell windows not to spin down hard drives that haven't been used for a while, i think its in the power options, might be wrong though...

I have used those options its the other way round i don,t want it spinning up when not in use but something keeps starting it up I have my computer running silent apart from the bloody hdd lol gonna have too change it out for a silent 1 as the sammy is loud grrr

 

[useful_idiot]

Windows will often spin up all available drives when you perform tasks like saving files. It needs to know all available storage locations, so must spin the drives to read them. If you dont want this happening, only thing you can do is stop windows turning the drive off in power options