Every so often it sounds like my harddrive powers down and stops spinning, like it does when my computer turns off. Should this be any cause for concern? It's a storage drive so the OS isn't on it. I have no problems reading or writing to it.
Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options
Change Plan Settings
Change Advanced Power Settings
+ Hard Disk
+Turn off Hard Disk after..
Setting : Never
Change Plan Settings
Change Advanced Power Settings
+ Hard Disk
+Turn off Hard Disk after..
Setting : Never
It's not a problem per se, it's just trying to save power. So long as it's not a performance drive there's really no problem with it.
Hard drives live longer if they're on all the time rather than being power cycled a lot. If it isn't loud, you should do what Finny told you to.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
I thought I read they changed it to a significantly longer idle time in Win7?Freezer7Pro wrote:
Hard drives live longer if they're on all the time rather than being power cycled a lot. If it isn't loud, you should do what Finny told you to.
I mean it's bad for the life of a lightbulb to turn it on and off, but if you're not in the room...
A hard drive uses two or three Watts of power at most. If you care that much about conserving power, you might as well unplug your fans when the computer isn't under load.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
I thought I read they changed it to a significantly longer idle time in Win7?Freezer7Pro wrote:
Hard drives live longer if they're on all the time rather than being power cycled a lot. If it isn't loud, you should do what Finny told you to.
I mean it's bad for the life of a lightbulb to turn it on and off, but if you're not in the room...
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Nah I'm just saying if the drive is truly rarely used (not such a bad assumption for a media hard drive, depending on the person) then I think turning it off would still be more beneficial to the life of the drive in the long run. Not that I think the difference is going to be huge either way, just saying.
Nah, hard drives really don't wear out much by being on. A start-up can be said to be equal to a thousand hours of on-time.Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Nah I'm just saying if the drive is truly rarely used (not such a bad assumption for a media hard drive, depending on the person) then I think turning it off would still be more beneficial to the life of the drive in the long run. Not that I think the difference is going to be huge either way, just saying.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Ah yes that was it, thanks.Finray wrote:
Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options
Change Plan Settings
Change Advanced Power Settings
+ Hard Disk
+Turn off Hard Disk after..
Setting : Never