HDD keep waking up

[leedsfan83]

So i am experiencing a problem that i have never experienced before. 

I run an SSD as my C: drive and 2 HDD for storage.  I have the HDD's set to sleep after a few minutes but for some reason unbeknown to me the drives keep waking up (every few minutes) on their own, and I can not figure out why!

 

I have tried to monitor disk activity in the Resource Monitor with processes and disk activity and that has given me no good explanation as to what could be going on, and also in the little graph on the task manager i see 2 spikes on the graph where the drives are being woken up.

 

I have never had this happen in previous versions of windows, only in 10, and it is driving me bloody nuts!!

 

Anyone have any suggestions??

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

[WereCatf]

I have the same issue. None of the log-files, system resource - monitor or anything show what is waking my drives up. A complete wipe of the system, with no additional drivers, apps or anything else installed, still exhibits the same thing. Doesn't happen under Linux, though, so it's clearly something Windows does.

[homeap5]

Hmmm, windows defragments disks when idle, so maybe that is a reason?

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, homeap5 said:

Hmmm, windows defragments disks when idle, so maybe that is a reason?

Can't say about the OP, but for me, no. I went so far as to disable Defender, Anti-malware scan, defrag and pretty much everything else I could think of, and it still continued to happen.

[EarthWormJM2]

Most likely Windows is your culprit here. Either it's "checking" to make sure the drive is still there and working, or defender is looking at it, or defrag is happening, or any number of Windows services could be looking at it. A small quick spike here and there shouldn't be anything to worry about tho.

[leedsfan83]

I like wereCatf have tried disabling certain stuff to no avail only stopping short of nuking windows and reinstalling. Starting to think this is some kinda of windows 10 bug, after a quick google search i have seen some other people suggest it was since a Winblows 10 update

 

EearthWormJM2, your suggestion that a small spike here or there is nothing to worry about besides the point and really not very helpful.  The issue i have is related to those spikes.  My drives are stopping and starting every few minutes causing wear on my drives, not to mention the noise  

I was planning on using some old computer parts out the cupboard to put together an old sandy bridge NAS which would eliminate the problem, but before doing that i would need the money to buy a second SSD for my games as my boot drive is only 250GB.

 

But for now would love to see if anyone else here has been able to fix this problem.

 

 

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, leedsfan83 said:

I was planning on using some old computer parts out the cupboard to put together an old sandy bridge NAS which would eliminate the problem, but before doing that i would need the money to buy a second SSD for my games as my boot drive is only 250GB.

I've also been thinking of ditching the drives and putting them in a NAS instead. It's just so freaking distracting, when the drives spin up randomly. It'd be a different thing, if they only spun up when they're supposed to, but they often go to sleep, then wake right back up within 50 seconds, which is totally not the way it's supposed to work. Not to mention that it's not healthy for the drives.