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This is why I asked if you considered Sleep an option, as some cannot tolerate the few seconds it takes to wake from Sleep - even though this feature along with Hibernate are perfected in Win7 and offer great convenience.
This is why I asked if you considered Sleep an option, as some cannot tolerate the few seconds it takes to wake from Sleep - even though this feature along with Hibernate are perfected in Win7 and offer great convenience.
Its not so much the time to wake up from sleep (computers do it much faster than I do!), it's the unnecessary drives spinning while the computer is being used for long periods that is the problem (difficult old bi...broad, aren't I?).
What wears a HD is read/writes so having it idle vs. sleep may not really age it much unless its staying hot which also always wears parts.
Sleep is more a convenience which happens to be perfected in Win7, so that I can walk away from my work and after 30 minutes it sleeps which I can wake up quickly by pressing Enter. Then if I'm away for an hour it writes everything to HD and shuts down using Hibernate, which also resumes much quicker from the Power Button with everything exactly as I left it out on the desktop. So I can walk away whether I come back in an hour or a month and my work is preserved.
Someone else may know a way to achieve exactly what Lady wants.
I have all my 6 drives in this machine and 5 in the other to power down after 20 mins. I don't know the answer to this, if I then access the drive with My Music on it that drive will spin up, do all the other drives power up too? If they remain asleep then that should be the answer to the OP issue.
I have a mixture of different SSD and mechanical internal hard drives.
The SSD's are on RAID 0 and the 3 mechanical 2GB drives are used for back up.
I have read that I should set the Power Options for the SSD to "Turn off hard disk after" = Never.
But I still want the back up disks to turn off after 15 minutes.
Is there a way I can do this?
I have a mixture of different SSD and mechanical internal hard drives.
The SSD's are on RAID 0 and the 3 mechanical 2GB drives are used for back up.
I have read that I should set the Power Options for the SSD to "Turn off hard disk after" = Never.
But I still want the back up disks to turn off after 15 minutes.
Is there a way I can do this?
No. Individual drive settings are not provided. However; if you have "green" drives, they will auto-sleep if not active. WD has a line of green drives that do just that. Even the label is green. :) The downside is that they are generally slower and the larger drives may take up to 13 seconds to spin up and respond. Perhaps that doesn't matter for a drive that isn't used much.
Thanks.
So should I set the "Turn off drive after" to "never" or leave it at 15 minutes?
Your choice. I don't know how you use your PC. The green drives work independent of any system settings. It's in the drive's firmware. They have their own stepped shutdown procedure. That's why the "green" drives should NEVER be used for Windows system files.