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Harddrive Noise
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:54:39 +1300, "Clayton"
wrote: Thanks for the advice Tom, I have changed it to 60 mins, what should it be set to? Why do you have it set to turn off at all? I've never done that, and I really can NOT recall having a hard drive blow out on me since the first 30mb - yes, megabyte - drive I bought back in '91 for $300 - and that got replaced under warranty when it blew a week before the warranty expired. |
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Harddrive Noise
The suggested setting 20 minutes for most users. You could turn on the
resource monitor and run it under a variety of your typical uses. Then you could select a few different settings to try. -- Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 "Clayton" wrote in message ... Thanks for the advice Tom, I have changed it to 60 mins, what should it be set to? "Tom Ferguson" wrote in message ... "Clayton" wrote in message ... Running Vista 64 had HDD set to turn off after 20 min, changed it to 0 2 of the WD hard drives failed within a month of each other, windows started freezing and all that then I pulled the HDD out and plugged it into another system and ran tests on it and got bad I/O so was replaced and it did the same thing again so I gave up on WD. I don't think they exhibited the pause issue, I have notice the seagate is a lot noiser than the WD's hence the reason I notice the seagate clicking once. Are you referring to a setting under Power Management? Did you really intend to indicate that you set it so that the HD turns off after 0 min? This means that the HD will spin down after the last read or write in the command que. This places high demand on the mechanics of the drive even in typical, let alone high demand, use. I can't think of any pattern of use for which that would be a suitable setting which is not to say that there might be. -- Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 "Timothy Davis [MSFT]" wrote in message ... What do you mean by "...then my harddrive clicks once and away I go..."? Does this mean that the copying process continues after the pause? Why did you replace the WD hard drivers? Did they fail? Or were they exhibiting this pause issue? How long is the pause? The Seagate diagnostic CD: Have you tried it on other Vista systems? "Clayton" wrote in message ... Sometimes when I am copying files or opening files I get a pause (nothing happens) then my harddrive clicks once and away I go, I have already replaced 2 hard drives under warranty which were WD Raptors and decided to go with Seagate. I have created a Seagate diagnosic CD but everytime I boot to it nothing happens I only get a message saying something about getfat failed, I know the CD is fine as it works in other systems. |
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