Data Hoarder

11 readers

1 users here now

We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@selfhosted.forum

Any way to stop secondary HDD from spinning down on restart? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by ArmorOfAltair@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

On my old PC my secondary HDD would keep spinning when I restarted my PC, but on my new one it spins down and spins back up on restart which I don't want as it's not good for the drive.

I have the B650 Tomahawk Motherboard - Is there perhaps some sort of setting I can change? Thanks.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] therealtimwarren@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fine. Spinning up down problem is over thought by too many people. The only time you have an issue is when your power settings are so aggressive they spin the drive down after a few minutes of inactivity causing thousands of spin cycles.

A commanded power down is different from a power loss power down because in the latter heads are parked before the power down event and the drive doesn't need to use the spinning platter as a flywheel generator.

[–] PalmMallMars@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I had a 8tb 5400rpm drive lying around and thought, why not put it in my sound dampened win system.

Windows 10 spins the disk up every 5 minutes, with absolutely no reason and then stops it again. It would be great if it kept spinning but the startup sound is so noticable that I had to ditch it out of the system, it was beyond annoying