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Stop hard drive rotation does not seem to work....
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:32 am
by ajdedo
Hi,
I installed a Seagate 500gb HD in to my x200s. (Seagate ST9500420ASG
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In "Power Manager" I have my "Idle Timers" set to "Stop Hard Disk Rotation" in 3 minutes.... But it never does.
Are there any other settings I should be looking at?
Thanks.
Re: Stop hard drive rotation does not seem to work....
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:09 am
by ajdedo
Anyone?
Re: Stop hard drive rotation does not seem to work....
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:20 am
by yak
Windows accesses the HDD fairly often in the background so it probably never gets a > 3 minute window when the HDD isn't accessed.
Re: Stop hard drive rotation does not seem to work....
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:23 am
by Investinwaffles
Yes, on your primary drive windows is always reading/writing something in the background.
On my desktop, the second internal HDD will spindown after the specified time very regularly. It is a backup drive and is almost never accessed unless I access it.
Re: Stop hard drive rotation does not seem to work....
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:55 am
by yak
Investinwaffles wrote:On my desktop, the second internal HDD will spindown after the specified time very regularly. It is a backup drive and is almost never accessed unless I access it.
Yes, same on my T60 with 2nd HDD adapter in UltraBay.