I just bought a WD Black 640 GB hard-drive, and I want to use that as my primary hard drive. Since I have two hard-drives, I'm wondering if there's anyway to stop my 2nd hard drive from spinning up. Should I just pull the power plug from the hard-drive or is there another way I can do this...which would disable the 2nd hard-drive from even starting. Maybe something I can do in the BIOS or device settings? I don't know If anybody can help, that'd be fantastic
What brand is it ? I know some commands, maybe they will help : Code: hdparm -Sxxx /dev/xxx Sets timeout for standby where xxx stands for the seconds. Code: hdparm -y /dev/xxx puts drive in standby Code: hdparm -Y /dev/xxx sets drive in sleep. Try play with those, but, everything that needs to access HDD will wake the HDD up from sleep/standby. Maybe increase the write cache so it only wakes up once every few hours to write/read the data and then spins down again once the timeout comes in effect. But I forgot the command for it... Also there is a tool called "Hitachi Feature Tool", which lets you configure accoustics of the drive. Setting the level of noise will affect the amount of spin up/down, but it will also affect performance.
Thanks so much ! I have a Western Digital Black 640. But I have a problem, I'm trying to install windows 7 on there, yet it keeps showing this: Disk 1 Partition 1: 128 MB MSR reserved Disk 1 Partition 2: GPT partition style. I'm unable to install windows 7 on my new hard drive because of this :'( I keep getting those errors. Should I hit "delete" because I can't install because of the error it showing "GPT partition style" ..I don't even know wtf that is!!! If I hit delete, it won't make my hard-drive unusable right? lol Gah! Someone heeeeelp!! !
Mind telling how you solved it ? For future references, might other ppl come accross this issue ? gen555
I went into my BIOS, went to drives, and turned off SATA-0 (my old hard drive). I booted from the win 7 disk and it finally let me delete and format the new hard-drive and it worked perfectly. Also people can turn off their hard-drive by going into their BIOS and turning off the SATA drive (whatever SATA port the hard-drive is plugged in). I don't know if there's an easier way than going into the BIOS and turning off the hard-drive from there, but it's easier than pulling the plug on a hard-drive that you don't want to use. If anybody knows how to actually prevent the extra internal hard-drive from spinning up etc an easier way, feel free to share