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Richard Cranium
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by Richard Cranium Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:01 am
I'm tired of my data drive (1TB WD SATA) always spinning down but I don't see any settings to prevent this. Anyone have an idea how to stop this?
BUBBALOU
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by BUBBALOU Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:03 am
power options in control panel
AceCombat
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by AceCombat Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:04 am
yup
Richard Cranium
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by Richard Cranium Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:09 pm
Nope, doesn't work, I tried that. I still spins down after a few idle minutes and then when I go to access that drive again (usually right after the spin down) I have to wait for it to spin up and everything.
Grendel
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by Grendel Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:12 am
Odd. Did you check if WD has some sort of management program for the disk online ?
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by JMEaT Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:49 pm
Also check Power Management settings in BIOS.
