Disabling Hard Drive in Windows 10?

[Cyberspirit]

Hey i want to turn off my hard drives when i'm not using them because they are pretty damn loud compared to everything else in my Pc. 

I looked around for a way to disable/turn off Hard Drives without unplugging them and someone suggested simply disabling them in the device manager.

 

I do know that you can set a time in Power setting to spin down a drive after a while but even if i do that Windows keeps spinning them up randomly.

I could just set it to spin down after a minute or so but people have warned me that doing so will damage my drives in the long run.

 

There are two Hard Drives in my system one is for games and downloads the other is for backups so the second i'm not using very often.

 

Ps.: As you can see i'm not good with grammar so if you have any tips for that i'll gladly take them 

 

 

[NumLock21]

HDD can't never be turned off. The motor is constantly spinning.

[TheNaitsyrk]

2 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

Hey i want to turn off my hard drives when i'm not using them because they are pretty damn loud compared to everything else in my Pc. 

I looked around for a way to disable/turn off Hard Drives without unplugging them and someone suggested simply disabling them in the device manager.

 

I do know that you can set a time in Power setting to spin down a drive after a while but even if i do that Windows keeps spinning them up randomly.

I could just set it to spin down after a minute or so but people have warned me that doing so will damage my drives in the long run.

 

There are two Hard Drives in my system one is for games and downloads the other is for backups so the second i'm not using very often.

 

Ps.: As you can see i'm not good with grammar so if you have any tips for that i'll gladly take them 

 

 

Use portable hard drives.

[Cyberspirit]

3 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

HDD can't never be turned off. The motor is constantly spinning.

The correct term is spin down i guess. I don't care what it does as long as it stays quiet.

[tekgeek1205]

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1 minute ago, Cyberspirit said:

The correct term is spin down i guess. I don't care what it does as long as it stays quiet.

 

do you know how to get to disk management.... right click the drive and set to offline

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Cyberspirit said:

The correct term is spin down i guess. I don't care what it does as long as it stays quiet.

Well, it can't be completely turned off. I have it set to never spin down, when idle it stays pretty quiet with it's low hum, but I have put my ears next to the case to actually hear it.

[Cyberspirit]

Just now, tekgeek1205 said:

Do you know how to get to disk management.... right click the drive and set to offline

I was planning to do that but i thought i'll ask here to make sure i'm not damaging the drives.

[Cyberspirit]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

When idle it stays pretty quiet with it's low hum, but I have put my ears next to the case to actually hear it.

Might just be because my Pc is on my desk or perhaps the case isn't the best but mine are really loud.

[tekgeek1205]

you could also use Crystal disk to set the AAM/APM settings, it will make you dives seek slower so you dont hear clicking, just the drive spinning.

 

if you want to go that rout i can help 

[NumLock21]

Just now, Cyberspirit said:

Might just be because my Pc is on my desk or perhaps the case isn't the best but mine are really loud.

I have same WD blue HDD as your in your sig and it's not loud.

[Cyberspirit]

@NumLock21 What case do you have?

[NumLock21]

Just now, Cyberspirit said:

@NumLock21 What case do you have?

That WD Blue is in my BitFenix Prodigy

[tekgeek1205]

BTW, WD blues are nothing compaired to 8 7k200 RPM enterprise Hitachi drives in raid 5 durring an overnight plex optimization.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, tekgeek1205 said:

BTW, WD blues are nothing compaired to 8 7k200 RPM enterprise Hitachi drives in raid 5 durring an overnight plex optimization.

That's nothing compared to the Seagate Cheetahs.

[Wi RoZ]

It would be nice if there was some kind of support build into Windows that enables you to set certain stations on "stand-by": they'll only be accessed by the system if you prompt it to.

 

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Like DVD/BluRay stations

[Cyberspirit]

35 minutes ago, tekgeek1205 said:

BTW, WD blues are nothing compaired to 8 7k200 RPM enterprise Hitachi drives in raid 5 durring an overnight plex optimization.

34 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

That's nothing compared to the Seagate Cheetahs.

Yeah no thanks. 

 

28 minutes ago, Wi RoZ said:

It would be nice if there was some kind of support build into Windows that enables you to set certain stations on "stand-by": they'll only be accessed by the system if you prompt it to.

I was hoping you were going to say something like *cough* insert snarky comment of a base windows feature's name here *cough*

[NumLock21]

Just now, Cyberspirit said:

Yeah no thanks. 

 

I was hoping you were going to say something like *cough* insert snarky comment of a base windows feature's name here *cough*

IMO, I think it's time for some test on your HDDs one at a time to find out which of the 2 drive is actually causing this loud noise.

[Cyberspirit]

@NumLock21 The one with the backups for sure. Before i didn't care a lot about the noise but after i got it it started to bother me.

[NumLock21]

Just now, Cyberspirit said:

@NumLock21 The one with the backups for sure. Before i didn't care a lot about the noise but after i got it it started to bother me.

Which drive is that?

[Cyberspirit]

@NumLock21 What do you mean exactly? It's drive E if that's what you are asking.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Cyberspirit said:

@NumLock21 What do you mean exactly? It's drive E if that's what you are asking.

You mentioned, there are 2 HDDs in your system. One of them is the WD that's in your sig, what is the other Hdd?

[Cyberspirit]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

You mentioned, there are 2 HDDs in your system. One of them is the WD that's in your sig, what is the other Hdd?

Oh both are WD10EZEX. (Probably should've gotten a bigger one but oh well)

[Cyberspirit]

1 hour ago, tekgeek1205 said:

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do you know how to get to disk management.... right click the drive and set to offline

So i tried this and i don't think it really did anything. It did disable the drive after restart but all the noise was still there.

[NumLock21]

7 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

Oh both are WD10EZEX. (Probably should've got a bigger one but oh well)

Can test them out one at a time by physically disconnecting one of them and then let it idle. After it's idle, start browsing the contents on the drive to see which one causes the louder noise. The other method is to spread the HDD apart from another, that's 1 HDD on top and the other on the bottom.

It might also be the design of the case, where the HDD's motor is amplified by the cases side panel. Now that's not confirmed cause if that was, there will be lots of complains about it.

[Cyberspirit]

20 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Can test them out one at a time by physically disconnecting one of them and then let it idle. After it's idle, start browsing the contents on the drive to see which one causes the louder noise.

Will try later.

 

20 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

The other method is to spread the HDD apart from another, that's 1 HDD on top and the other on the bottom.

They are that way already. As you can see on this horribly low quality picture here.

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It might also be the design of the case, where the HDD's motor is amplified by the cases side panel. Now that's not confirmed cause if that was, there will be lots of complains about it.

Honestly that's probably the case.