- May 29, 2014
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Alright this is gonna sound a little weird but ever since getting my ssd, my hdd seems to work on - off.
It's detected in the BIOS and the drive always show up in "my computer" but many times when accessing files from the drive itself, I hear it starting to work (sounds like it's starting to spin), sometimes even when not accessing the drive itself, after a while of not hearing it "starting to work" I hear it. Plus sometimes in HWMONITOR it's not showing up, then if I access the drive in "my computer" and hear it start spinning - it shows up in HWMONITOR.
I ran chkdsk & "western digital diagnostic tools", no problems with the drive at all. Before getting my ssd it was plugged to the same port & i've used the same sata cable. The psu shouldn't be a problem either since my total system consumption hits mabye 300W-310W max and the 12v rail provides 408W.
The SSD works perfectly fine.
The OS is installed only on the SSD, HDD is used for storage.
Specs:
i5 4670.
Gigabyte R9 270X WF3.
Gigabyte GA-H87M-HD3.
Corsair XMS3 1600mhz CL11.
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM.
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
I heard something about changing the time the computer is searching for hardware through BIOS but I haven't found it in my BIOS/anything about how to do so over the internet.
EDIT: I've just read that some WD hard drives spin on and off in order to save power (part of their software and there is not a way to change it?) Can anyone confirm that this is normal?
It's detected in the BIOS and the drive always show up in "my computer" but many times when accessing files from the drive itself, I hear it starting to work (sounds like it's starting to spin), sometimes even when not accessing the drive itself, after a while of not hearing it "starting to work" I hear it. Plus sometimes in HWMONITOR it's not showing up, then if I access the drive in "my computer" and hear it start spinning - it shows up in HWMONITOR.
I ran chkdsk & "western digital diagnostic tools", no problems with the drive at all. Before getting my ssd it was plugged to the same port & i've used the same sata cable. The psu shouldn't be a problem either since my total system consumption hits mabye 300W-310W max and the 12v rail provides 408W.
The SSD works perfectly fine.
The OS is installed only on the SSD, HDD is used for storage.
Specs:
i5 4670.
Gigabyte R9 270X WF3.
Gigabyte GA-H87M-HD3.
Corsair XMS3 1600mhz CL11.
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM.
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
I heard something about changing the time the computer is searching for hardware through BIOS but I haven't found it in my BIOS/anything about how to do so over the internet.
EDIT: I've just read that some WD hard drives spin on and off in order to save power (part of their software and there is not a way to change it?) Can anyone confirm that this is normal?
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