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Setting it to Never will keep all disks running.

Setting it to ( for example ) 10 minutes will sleep/turn off all other disks besides the OS drive. ( since it's always being used, it won't turn off.)

That being said, the option controls all Hard disks (and SSD's)

 

In my system I have 1 SSD for the OS and 1 HDD for stuff, and have it set to turn off after 10 minutes, the SSD stays running, but the HDD turns off.

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Hi there!

 

I have 2 samsung ssd's and 1 hdd attached to my computer. The os is on one of the ssd's and the other 2 disks are just partitioned in disk management to be used for other stuff.

What I would like to know, will putting this setting to "Never" disable auto shutdown for all 3 disks or just for the one that os is installed on?

 

I would not like to have the other ssd and the hdd shutdown after a while, I would like to keep all 3 disks ON.

 

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Setting it to Never will keep all disks running.

Setting it to ( for example ) 10 minutes will sleep/turn off all other disks besides the OS drive. ( since it's always being used, it won't turn off.)

That being said, the option controls all Hard disks (and SSD's)

 

In my system I have 1 SSD for the OS and 1 HDD for stuff, and have it set to turn off after 10 minutes, the SSD stays running, but the HDD turns off.

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Setting it to Never will keep all disks running.

Setting it to ( for example ) 10 minutes will sleep/turn off all other disks besides the OS drive. ( since it's always being used, it won't turn off.)

That being said, the option controls all Hard disks (and SSD's)

 

In my system I have 1 SSD for the OS and 1 HDD for stuff, and have it set to turn off after 10 minutes, the SSD stays running, but the HDD turns off.

There's also not really anything to "turn off" or worry about with a SSD, since it has no moving parts that need rest.

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