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Turning off drives when not needed?
I have a PC that does a lot of Video editing & for that you need lots of hard disk storage. I currently have 3 large drives in my PC. When I'm not using the PC for video these extra drives are consuming power, producing heat & noise. I thought that I should see if there is a better way of handling this situation. I know what I can go for a physical solution like putting 2 drives into removable caddies & only have them in place when needed. Is there also a software solution? I was thinking along the lines of using identities, dual booting etc. In other words some way to have the extra drives be turned off by software when not needed? Any ideas? -- Thanks in advance |
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Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver | Power
See option to turn off hard disks. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User Quote from: George Ankner "If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!" "Over Here" wrote in message ... I have a PC that does a lot of Video editing & for that you need lots of hard disk storage. I currently have 3 large drives in my PC. When I'm not using the PC for video these extra drives are consuming power, producing heat & noise. I thought that I should see if there is a better way of handling this situation. I know what I can go for a physical solution like putting 2 drives into removable caddies & only have them in place when needed. Is there also a software solution? I was thinking along the lines of using identities, dual booting etc. In other words some way to have the extra drives be turned off by software when not needed? Any ideas? -- Thanks in advance |
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Does using this setting mean that the hard drives will restart atomically if
& only if I try to either read or write to them & when go back to being dormant? "Richard Urban [MVP]" wrote in message ... Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver | Power See option to turn off hard disks. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User Quote from: George Ankner "If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!" "Over Here" wrote in message ... I have a PC that does a lot of Video editing & for that you need lots of hard disk storage. I currently have 3 large drives in my PC. When I'm not using the PC for video these extra drives are consuming power, producing heat & noise. I thought that I should see if there is a better way of handling this situation. I know what I can go for a physical solution like putting 2 drives into removable caddies & only have them in place when needed. Is there also a software solution? I was thinking along the lines of using identities, dual booting etc. In other words some way to have the extra drives be turned off by software when not needed? Any ideas? -- Thanks in advance |
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The drive goes to sleep but wakes up if something has to write to the drive
or access the files on the drive. The process will be slowed down a tad because the drive has to spin up to do the writing/reading. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User Quote from: George Ankner "If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!" "Over Here" wrote in message ... Does using this setting mean that the hard drives will restart atomically if & only if I try to either read or write to them & when go back to being dormant? "Richard Urban [MVP]" wrote in message ... Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver | Power See option to turn off hard disks. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User Quote from: George Ankner "If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!" "Over Here" wrote in message ... I have a PC that does a lot of Video editing & for that you need lots of hard disk storage. I currently have 3 large drives in my PC. When I'm not using the PC for video these extra drives are consuming power, producing heat & noise. I thought that I should see if there is a better way of handling this situation. I know what I can go for a physical solution like putting 2 drives into removable caddies & only have them in place when needed. Is there also a software solution? I was thinking along the lines of using identities, dual booting etc. In other words some way to have the extra drives be turned off by software when not needed? Any ideas? -- Thanks in advance |
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Over Here wrote:
I have a PC that does a lot of Video editing & for that you need lots of hard disk storage. I currently have 3 large drives in my PC. When I'm not using the PC for video these extra drives are consuming power, producing heat & noise. I thought that I should see if there is a better way of handling this situation. I know what I can go for a physical solution like putting 2 drives into removable caddies & only have them in place when needed. Is there also a software solution? I was thinking along the lines of using identities, dual booting etc. In other words some way to have the extra drives be turned off by software when not needed? Any ideas? The power savings will be 5-10W per HD. Pretty minor. -- Cheers, Bob |
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