(help) second drive keeps spinning

[Evil_Duck]

Dear all,

 

Lately i've been noticing that my second hard drive keeps spinning, while my external hard drive gets switched off as requested in my power management.

I thought it were my fans i was hearing but after opening up my case it was the spinning drive.

Now that i've noticed it, my paranoia has activated...

 

I've been monitoring the recourse manager and it's not reading or writing anything to the drive for hours and it doesn't want to stop spinning ... while my external drive (connected to USB) does.

Anyone who has any idea's or had the same issue ?

 

cheers

[Spoderman!!]

16 minutes ago, Evil_Duck said:

Dear all,

 

Lately i've been noticing that my second hard drive keeps spinning, while my external hard drive gets switched off as requested in my power management.

I thought it were my fans i was hearing but after opening up my case it was the spinning drive.

Now that i've noticed it, my paranoia has activated...

 

I've been monitoring the recourse manager and it's not reading or writing anything to the drive for hours and it doesn't want to stop spinning ... while my external drive (connected to USB) does.

Anyone who has any idea's or had the same issue ?

 

cheers

 My second drive (Which is not being used) does the same thing so i'm guessing it's normal for non-external drives.

[scottyseng]

3 hours ago, Evil_Duck said:

 

Weird, it should spin down. Maybe Windows is using it as a paging file disk? Or a temp file drive? I wouldn't trust Task Manager too much, it does show some bizarre stuff for me at times.