Hard Drives Powering On/Off Constantly

David Levy

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When I install programs to my SSD, ALL 6 of my OTHER HARD DRIVES keep powering off and on constantly during the installation to my SSD or when ever I'm monitoring my pc with Speccy it does it as well. but when my pc is idle it doesnt happen. What do I do?
 

UncleBiscuits79

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If you are sure that the drives are powering down, you may want to check power settings, but after that, I would wonder if you are actually having power problems (i mean, do you have a power supply that can support the power draw of 6 hard drives and anything else that you are running on the machine).

More information about your computer would help alot, wattage of power supply, video card specs, processor details, etc. . . . .
 

David Levy

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I have 750 watt power supply. I can hear the click when they finish powering up and the spinning up noise. no my hard drives arent going bad because I just switched out my motherboard and it wasnt doing this before.
 

David Levy

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hmmm I have a z97 asus mb..what is the point of this feature