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Why is Windows constantly spinning up my secondary HDD?

I'm having a problem with windows constantly spinning up my secondary HDD. My main OS is on the C: partition of my SSD and on my HDD I have a D: partition for storage and an E: partition for recovery. Indexing is disabled for E: and D: and currently…
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How long does a hard disk spin after power off?

I frequently use 3.5" hard drives in external "docks", swapping them in and out. The platters are heavy and have great angular momentum and I imagine that if the drive is moved - especially rotated out of the plane - while the hard disks are…
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Avoid HDD spinup at boot

Is there any way to avoid specific HDDs from spinning up at boot time? There are 3 HDDs in my HTPC (Ubuntu 12.10) and 1 SSD (boot drive). I don't want the HDDs to spin up when booting to reduce boot time, save energy and expand the HDD's…
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SSD cache to minimize HDD spin-up time?

short version first: I'm looking for Linux compatible software which is able to transparently cache HDD writes using an SSD. However, I only want to spin up the HDD once or twice a day (to write the cached data to the HDD). The rest of the time, the…
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Linux - prevent disks spinning up

On bootup all disks are spun up, but 4 are just backup (and pretty noisy too). Soo I'd rather prefer to never ever spin them up at all when booting. Is there a kernel option which tells the kernel which SATA port the disk is attached which contains…
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How can I prevent Windows from spinning up all drives when I delete something?

When I delete something Windows spin up all sleeping hard drives. Even those totally unaffected by the procedure. Is there a way of preventing this, or it's just a Windows bug? (Using Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit - Recycle bin turned on on all…
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Hard drive fell; caught in mid-air; won't spin up

I have a SimpleTech 1TB external USB hard drive. I recently backed up my entire system to it, then formatted and installed Windows 8 Developer Preview. Before restoring my data from the external drive, I stepped on the power cord, yanking the drive…
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Why does my harddrive keep spinning down in windows 8.1?

I'm using windows 8.1 with an external hard drive. My external seems to go to sleep very quickly, like in a single minute. I constantly wait 2-3 seconds when accessing files on my external harddrive (where all my important stuff is). I have not had…
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Preventing unused spare hdd from spinning up during suspend and shutdown

I recently replaced my sata hdd with an ssd, and keeping the hdd in as a spare. It's not used, not event mounted to filesystem. Yet, when suspending or shutting down the system, it quickly spins up, then down when power goes off. How can i prevent…
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Why does iTunes make my DVD drive spin?

I have a weird issue with my new laptop (Asus N76VM). Every time I open iTunes it makes my DVD drive make a spin up noise for a second and then stops. It seems like it checks if there's a CD present or so (but there isn't, it's empty). I would be…
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Whenever g Google Chrome is open my HDD spins really fast

I have a Windows 7 64 bit machine freshly installed. When I open the latest version of google chrome, the hard drive is constantly being accessed. I know because it makes a loud annoying noise. The hard drive is a samsung 2Tb HDD. It's fairly new…
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Is debugging bad hard-drives possible by intercepting SATA packages?

My question Is there any way of debugging bad (as in no longer recognized) hard-drives? Ideally an open-source tool that can interact with the device to capture/interpret SATA communication and issue error codes such as "platters stuck", "head…
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Are my disks waking up too often?

I have noticed a sequence of this messages in my logs: Oct 27 02:20:38 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache Oct 27 02:20:38 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk Oct 27 02:20:38 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk Oct 27 02:21:13…
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HDD spinning up while pc is off

We have a Dell PC that is switched off/shutdown (Mains still going into pc though), and every so often the HDD spins up for a couple of seconds then stops. Does anyone know why this is and if it can be stopped?
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Is there a way to disable power management on a Seagate ST2000DM001 harddrive completely?

After I bring my Seagate ST2000DM001 harddrive offline using Diskpart, then spin it down using HDDScan for Windows 3.3, and then finally disable its device driver using DevCon so that AFAIK no software nor the Windows OS can cause it to spin up…
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