Windows Vista and my hard drives

[Trevor L.]

HI, Im Trevor.
This evening I was sitting in front of my computer, which was recently
upgraded to Vista Ultimate. After a while, I started hearing two of my
hard drives spin down and then about ten seconds later, spin back up
again, then back down. It seems to be stuck in a loop of some sort.
One of the two drives is getting kind of old and I dont think it
should keep spinning back up without any reason, especially if it is
not being acessed.

Any solutions to this problem would be a great help, Thanks!

--Trevor

 

[Arno Wagner]

HI, Im Trevor.
This evening I was sitting in front of my computer, which was recently
upgraded to Vista Ultimate. After a while, I started hearing two of my
hard drives spin down and then about ten seconds later, spin back up
again, then back down. It seems to be stuck in a loop of some sort.
One of the two drives is getting kind of old and I dont think it
should keep spinning back up without any reason, especially if it is
not being acessed.

Any solutions to this problem would be a great help, Thanks!

You need to solve this. Typical desktop drives are only
rated at 40.000 start-stop cycles or so. Spinning up and
down all the time will kill them fast.

Arno

 

[Trevor L.]

You need to solve this. Typical desktop drives are only
rated at 40.000 start-stop cycles or so. Spinning up and
down all the time will kill them fast.

Arno

well I seem to have fixed the problem by setting the spin down time to
"never" and I havent heard them spin down yet