Spinning down HDD in Windows

[antoainb]

Hello!

 

I recently added a second HDD to my system, I had to take it from an enclosure since the enclosure died and I still need the drive. Since I rarelly use it I think it'd be a good idea if it spinned down when not in use. 

 

Do any of you know how to do this in Windows?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Flight1sim]

It should automatically slow down from what I know...

Give it a few minutes. But i do not think it can go all the way down, it only slows down.

[Elven]

 

antoainb

 

Windows does it automatically unless specified.

 

You can find the options by going to Control panel > Power options > Change plan settings. Under Advanced > Hard disk. You can specify how long you want the hard drive to stay active.

 

Personally I never have mine spin down. It pisses me off when it spins down and I have to wait for it to fire up  :lol:

[antoainb]

It should automatically slow down from what I know...

Give it a few minutes. But i do not think it can go all the way down, it only slows down.

 

I use hdparm to do it in Linux and I thought it was possible in Windows too.

 

Windows does it automatically unless specified.

 

You can find the options by going to Control panel > Power options > Change plan settings. Under Advanced > Hard disk. You can specify how long you want the hard drive to stay active.

 

Personally I never have mine spin down. It pisses me off when it spins down and I have to wait for it to fire up  :lol:

 

It doesn't bother me since I don't have anything importan there, some files but I rarely use them.

 

Thanks!

[Elven]

 

It doesn't bother me since I don't have anything importan there, some files but I rarely use them.

 

Thanks!

 

No worries. It takes probably about 5-10 seconds to get a response from the drive when you access the files on it. So don't worry if it doesn't respond instantly 

[Flight1sim]

I use hdparm to do it in Linux and I thought it was possible in Windows too.

 

 

 

 

 

I dont know if this will work

 http://disablehddapm.blogspot.com/p/1.html

[antoainb]

I dont know if this will work

 http://disablehddapm.blogspot.com/p/1.html

 

Thanks, but what @Elven said works fine too.

[Flight1sim]

Thanks, but what @Elven said works fine too.

Oh ok...

[LogicalDrm]

I had problem when drive kept waking up from its windows sleep mode. So I used RevoSleep for it. Just tick drive to shut it down and take tick off when you want to wake it up again.

[antoainb]

I had problem when drive kept waking up from its windows sleep mode. So I used RevoSleep for it. Just tick drive to shut it down and take tick off when you want to wake it up again.

 

Thanks, maybe I'll check it out.