Windows 10 really likes to start up my storage drives. I have them set to sleep after one minute in the balanced power profile but not long after they spin down something else causes them to start up again.
They will eventually turn off but spin up again at a later time for no reason.
I see that there is no data being written to them in task manager.
Windows itself will wake the drives periodically for maintenance and such, if they are on USB then the drive itself may be just coming in and out of sleep mode.
Take a look here.. in power settings.
Unless you have a really good reason expecting them to turn off after one minute seems a bit drastic to me. Parking their heads that often may be worse than letting them spin all the time. The default of twenty minutes seems to be more realistic. HDDs are pretty resilient things , I've only had one fail in twenty years and I've had a lot from 420MB's upwards.Windows 10 really likes to start up my storage drives. I have them set to sleep after one minute in the balanced power profile but not long after they spin down something else causes them to start up again.
They will eventually turn off but spin up again at a later time for no reason.
I see that there is no data being written to them in task manager.
mine are on 24x7 all the time never sleep at all never once failed and mine are at least 10 yrs old.
The drives will only stay idle if the machine is idle with no scans or searches, and probably numerous other things, going on.Windows 10 really likes to start up my storage drives. I have them set to sleep after one minute in the balanced power profile but not long after they spin down something else causes them to start up again.
They will eventually turn off but spin up again at a later time for no reason.
I see that there is no data being written to them in task manager.
Edwin, as always, you have an elegant way of stating the obvious.....The drives will only stay idle if the machine is idle with no scans or searches, and probably numerous other things, going on.
LoL @ Tomcat
but yeah, thanks for the Wake settings, I didn't know it existed.
The reason for the one minute setting is purely noise related & I'm looking to have everything on a silent NAS at some point so I only have an SSD in the desktop.
My drives are still waking for no reason (that I can see).
Is there a command that I can see what is actually accessing the drives? That way I can disable it, uninstall it or delete it.
You could try excluding certain drives from Defender monitoring.My drives are still waking for no reason (that I can see).
Is there a command that I can see what is actually accessing the drives? That way I can disable it, uninstall it or delete it.
