High Spin Up Count Issue

[hatmind]

Hello,

I have recently filled my old NAS PC and have bought some new 14tb drives in the amazon sale. Before i transfer all the data and put them into my NAS I have noticed very high spin up rates, the PC also revvs up ever now and then. Any idea what could be causing this how to stop it and is it likely to cause damage to my expensive new drives?

Any Advice?

PC:

Dell Precision 3620

Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 at 3.00GHz

Nvidia NVS 310

32GB mixed RAM

Windows 10 Pro

[Electronics Wizardy]

Windows 10 likes to spin down drives, have you changed the power settings?

 

But I woudln't worry about it, the drives should be affected, and that smart readout doesn't really affect failure rate.

[AbydosOne]

There's an option in Windows to change the hard drive spin-down delay (it's buried pretty deep). Set to 0 to prevent spin-down.

 

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Windows 10 likes to spin down drives, have you changed the power settings?

 

But I woudln't worry about it, the drives should be affected, and that smart readout doesn't really affect failure rate.

I'd call 20000 spin-ups a few too many; for HDDs it's the most mechanically wearing part of operation, so I'd try to keep them to a minimum.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

There's an option in Windows to change the hard drive spin-down delay (it's buried pretty deep). Set to 0 to prevent spin-down.

 

I'd call 20000 spin-ups a few too many; for HDDs it's the most mechanically wearing part of operation, so I'd try to keep them to a minimum.

 

That pattern of it updated seems odd to me, Most of my drives update that spec more often.

 

Also are those drives used, they seem to be used datacenter drives, and those can have weird issues.

 

 

[hatmind]

Hello,

Thank you for the ideas so far...

The drives are set to not spin down in windows. 2 of the drives are overstock non used dell Exos drives designed for data centres, the other two were brand new Seagate SMR Baracuas.

I think the whole PC may be restarting as the fans rev up and down again repetatively for a while when powering up.  but every now and then the data says the drives spin up 1000 times which implies that there is some form of hardware error, im just not sure what it is?

I have tried removing the Dell drives to see if they cause the errors but the PC still spins up a lot making me think its other hardware related.