how to do this in windows 10

[Linksys120n]

I have an external HDD that I use all the time for listening to music the only problem is that if I go 30 minutes or so without listening to music I have to wait 30 seconds or so for the drive to spin back up and this pisses me the hell off... In windows 7 there was an option to simply have the drive always spinning the whole time your computer was booted... where the hell is this option in windows 10? google is of no help at all instead giving me links to hook up the drive to a console like the ps4 or xbone for some stupid reason... God sometimes I hate google.

[marten.aap2.0]

can this help?

[grimreeper132]

Try doing this maybe

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows

[marten.aap2.0]

1 minute ago, grimreeper132 said:

Try doing this maybe

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows

that is the same thing as what I posted

[grimreeper132]

Just now, marten.aap2.0 said:

that is the same thing as what I posted

yea, I posted it at the same time pretty much so stole your thunder

[Ashleyyyy]

go into the old control panel, then Power settings, then go to change power plan, then advanced settings and set the drives to never spin down. 

 

this may shorten the lifespan of your drives, as this setting will make all drives in your system never spin down. 

[Linksys120n]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

go into the old control panel, then Power settings, then go to change power plan, then advanced settings and set the drives to never spin down. 

I downloaded a program that will write a KB or so of data to the drive every 8 minutes so that its always barely in use and therefor never spins down... it's debatable that this is worse for the health of the thing than having it spin back up every time I need it but then again I wont have to wait 30 seconds to listen to music anymore.

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, Linksys120n said:

I downloaded a program that will write a KB or so of data to the drive every 8 minutes so that its always barely in use and therefor never spins down... it's debatable that this is worse for the health of the thing than having it spin back up every time I need it but then again I wont have to wait 30 seconds to listen to music anymore.

harddrives are mechanical. there are motors in them, and bearings. whenever they are powered up, they wear a bit. the longer it's turned on, the more the bearings wear out. 

[Linksys120n]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

harddrives are mechanical. there are motors in them, and bearings. whenever they are powered up, they wear a bit. the longer it's turned on, the more the bearings wear out. 

yeah but having the drive spin up and spin back down 30x a day isn't good either...

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Linksys120n said:

yeah but having the drive spin up and spin back down 30x a day isn't good either...

that's true. if you have an ssd, maybe put some of your music on that. then you won't need the hdd that often...

[Linksys120n]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

that's true. if you have an ssd, maybe put some of your music on that. then you won't need the hdd that often...

Well I acquired most of the music (all but about 10 albums or so) by downloading it (I haven't done it in the past 4 years before you get mad) but back then it was on like 5 different small hdds and in like 20 different folders... so even finding where I put all my music in the 1st place is gonna be hard but also my SSD is only 256GB and about 80GB of that is windows and steam games...