Hard Drive - Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle or Never

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    Brink said:
    You're most welcome. What turned out to be the cause? :)
    kaspersky...
    but is weird..in the past doesn't bother me about this matter
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    Could be an issue from an updated version of it, or a missed setting.
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    this is a nice thought actually..to turn off the hard disk!
    one question though, i download stuff so my laptop is on for like hours, so would this thing work while i am downloading and doing nothing else?
    i mean the download manager would be writing files onto the hard disk all the time, causing it to be "used" right?
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    Hello Gaurav Prakash,

    The HDD will not turn off while the download manager is still writing to the HDD, but it will when the download manager is finished and the HDD is then idle for the amount of minutes you set. It could be helpful to save energy if the computer is still running when you're not around when it's finished downloading.

    Hope this helps, :)
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    got it! :)
    thanks for sharing the guide!!
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    You're most welcome. :)
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    SSD systemdisk for waking up Hard Disk with TeamViewer


    Hello,

    In "Hard Drive - Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle or Never" you write:

    "This will show you how to have your hard disks to be either turned off after however many minutes you set of being idle, or to never be turned off in Windows 7 and Vista. This setting will only affect internal HDDs and not for SSDs (solid state drives."

    This might be the good news That I was looking for.

    I installed an SSD-disk with Win7 in my old 32bit pc in order to experiment with remote acces with TeamViewer. This is a nice program, but the pc has to kept 'on' in order to access it over the internet. As I do not want the two other harddisks (RAID1) to be running all the time while I am not at home, I wondered if the SSD-systemdisk could be kept active and alert without much energy consumption and that it would awake the other (data)disks when I would access the pc from soemewhere else. That way I can stop the rotating disks and keep the system disk on. Is that right?
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       #27

    Hello Rvanwaning, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Yes, that would be correct. You could set Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle or Never option for how many minutes you want for the HDDs like you wanted. It has no affect on SSDs. :)
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    @Brink, thank you. After some testing it seems to work that way. In the energy saving settings the disks can be made to stop rotating after 20 minutes or so, but the pc should stay awake and NOT go to sleep after a while. This setting should be 'Never'.

    This way the system-SSD reacts at any time to remote access from the internet, for instance with TeamViewer while the harddisks are sound asleep. Great!
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    You're most welcome. I'm glad you got it set for how you wanted. :)
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