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| Thread ID: 126060 | 2012-08-04 07:28:00 | How to stop a secondary HDD from spinning down? | powerover (12121) | Press F1 |
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| 1292772 | 2012-08-04 07:28:00 | Hi all, My Asus G74sx have 2 HDDs, the first one is a SSD and a second one is a 7200rpm HDD. The SSD is only 60GB so I install all my programs on the second HDD, keeping the SSD for windows only. The problem is it spins down, really quick, so when ever I do something it takes extra long, I got to wait for the HDD to spin up (I can hear that very clearly), which takes a couple of seconds everytime, and it gets very very annoying..:badpc: Is there a way to stop that from happening? I tried the windows power settings, setting the "Turn off HDD after.." to "Never", and it never helped...reading some online forum, others suggested that I should turn off s.m.a.r.t..but when I boot into the BIOS there is no such options..:badpc: Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated. |
powerover (12121) | ||
| 1292773 | 2012-08-04 10:12:00 | If the 2nd drive is a green drive than I think its part of the firmware to power down to save power..... Found this software that you can try, have not tried it myself so not sure how good it is .. softjock.com |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1292774 | 2012-08-04 11:10:00 | When I had the same problem about 10 years ago, the solution was an updated BIOS flash. The drive was a Seagate, but I have no memory now of the brands of mobo or CPU. | MistyCat (11583) | ||
| 1292775 | 2012-08-04 21:06:00 | If the 2nd drive is a green drive than I think its part of the firmware to power down to save power..... Found this software that you can try, have not tried it myself so not sure how good it is .. softjock.com I think the second drive is a seagate HDD, and you are right, from memory, it is a green drive.... will try that software and get back to ya. :D |
powerover (12121) | ||
| 1292776 | 2012-08-04 21:55:00 | softjock.com Doesn't work......:( |
powerover (12121) | ||
| 1292777 | 2012-08-04 22:04:00 | I have the same problem with a WD drive that is my data drive, I haven't been able to find a solution so just live with it | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1292778 | 2012-08-04 22:18:00 | Have you tried this: Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change Advance power settings -> Hard disk -> Turn Off hard disk after _____ Edit: just ignore the above. - since you have done that! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1292779 | 2012-08-04 23:53:00 | I was having a similar issue with my Data Drive. To stop it spinning down as often I put a small swap file on it. Didn't seem to effect computer performance negatively, but I am not constantly waiting for it to spin up now | McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1292780 | 2012-08-05 01:10:00 | I was having a similar issue with my Data Drive . To stop it spinning down as often I put a small swap file on it . Didn't seem to effect computer performance negatively, but I am not constantly waiting for it to spin up now Can you please explain a little bit more? what's a swap file and how exactly do I do that? Thanks :D |
powerover (12121) | ||
| 1292781 | 2012-08-05 01:13:00 | Have you tried this: Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change Advance power settings -> Hard disk -> Turn Off hard disk after _____ Edit: just ignore the above. - since you have done that! I never have that problem when I had my desktop...I use a seagate green drive in my desk top too and I always set the drives to never turn off... stupid lappy... :badpc: |
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