I wanna keep my hard drive spinning!
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| 1 | Hey all. Windows turns off my hard drive when its not being used (my second mechanical hard drive for storage). This is annoying because lets say I go to look for a song, i then wait for it to spin up, there is a lag. Now, the webz says go to power settings and change the hard drive power off setting to never. I have done that. It still spins down . The only other way I have found is some dude made a file that writes a text file every second to keep it awake. Surely there must be another way ? Some other hidden setting in Windows somewhere ? dbest - 2021-09-19 00:10:00 |
| 2 | Is the second mechanical hdd connected via usb? If so try this.... go to power settings again, change plan setting on the plan you are using, change advanced power settings, and this time change the 'usb settings' you want to disable the usb selective suspend setting. muppet_slayer - 2021-09-19 02:38:00 |
| 3 | My suggestion is to access the Virtual Memory settings and specify that the paging file is on your secondary disk. gyrogearloose - 2021-09-19 07:19:00 |
| 4 | How big is the harddrive (Capacity) and how old is it? SSDs are coming down in price, so for my daughter's PC rebuild we took out the 128GB boot SSD + old 1TB spinning disk and replaced it with a fast 1TB SSD on a M2 connector and the old 1TB drive is only for backup and rarely used So one option would be to just throw in an SSD and then far faster access to everything and reduced power consumption as well gblack - 2021-09-19 09:45:00 |
| 5 | You could swap out the secondary drive for a SSD then there should be no lag as it doesn't have to spin up. Edit - As above I was to slow at typing. Edited by loud_37 at 9:49 am, Sun 19 Sep loud_37 - 2021-09-19 09:47:00 |
| 6 | some drives are like that, the spindown timeout is a firmware function of the drive itself, the WD greens come to mind. To me the problem is that some drives actually take so damn long to spin up and get ready, while others do not eg WD Black/Red. Edited by king1 at 9:58 am, Sun 19 Sep king1 - 2021-09-19 09:57:00 |
| 7 | gyrogearloose wrote:
You REALLY do not want a page file on a mechanical disk these days vtecintegra - 2021-09-19 13:13:00 |
| 8 | vtecintegra wrote: Why? My understanding is that the page file is opened during the boot process, and is then only used when your RAM is insufficient to hold all the data currently is use. And then at a normal shutdown the page file is closed. My answer was based on the understanding that Windows will not spin down the operating system disk, and since the page file is part of the operating system if you put that on the secondary disk then that won't spin down either. Some people debate whether having the page file on an SSD is a good idea, because of the limit on the number of write cycles. gyrogearloose - 2021-09-19 13:39:00 |
| 9 | I already have an SSD as a main drive. I want to keep the second as mechanical. Its a 1TB WD/Blue. I know that a while back, WD USB hard drives had the spin up/down issue that was fixed with firmware issue. Hmm i wonder if one of those HD tools can change that setting... dbest - 2021-09-28 00:59:00 |
| 10 | So get a batch file that writes a to tiny txt file to that drive every few seconds then next cycle it deletes it. Set it to run at boot. nice_lady - 2021-09-28 05:31:00 |
| 11 | I have a solution. It's two simple parts. @echo off :loop Copy and paste that into a blank notepad page and save it as whatever.bat 2: is a simple VBS file Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.She- copy and paste that into a txt file and save it as whatever.vbs put both files onto your secondary hard drive then open up your start menu and the 'startup folder' and drag a shortcut to the vbs file into that. Easy Edited by nice_lady at 10:55 am, Tue 28 Sep nice_lady - 2021-09-28 10:54:00 |
| 12 | Ah you'll need to change this bit: D:\Bat2.bat In the VBS file to suit the name of your bat file and it's location. nice_lady - 2021-09-28 13:44:00 |
