Turning off HDD, to prevent damage

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Kubko93

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Hello,
I recently bought notebook Acer F15. Notebook includes 90 GB SDD and 1 TB HDD, operation system is installed on SSD of course, and I need to turn of the HDD without unplugging it. I travel a lot and I want to work on the notebook during travelling, so SDD is safe but HDD can be damaged by shaking and vibration, so it will be good to be turned off. So do you know some verified method to turn off the HDD drive, that makes the drive will not be operating and spinning for sure ? Is there any software for it ? or for example via bios, or device manager, but I dont know for sure, that the HDD is not spinning any more, so if is it in safe stance, or if the drive is only hidden in windows... so it can be damaged, if he is still spinning. I hope you understand. Thank you in advance.
 
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Ralston18

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I do not believe that there is a problem per se.

When the laptop is off the HDD will be off. Plus HDD's are designed to "park" the read-write arm so it will not be damaged by reasonable bumps and jolts. Or damage the disk's surface where data resides.

Just be sure to always correctly log off and shutdown so the notebook can properly fully configure itself for "travel".
 
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Ralston 18 , I know that, when the notebook is turned off that the HDD is safe, but as I wrote before, I need to work on the notebook, so the notebook is turned on, I only need to HDD be turned off. What I heard, is the HDD drives are in danger, when they are spinning, because the head in the drive can be damaged... but when the HDD will not be power supplied, the head will not be spinnning, and drive will be safe... so, is there something in windows, or bios, or some program, which can turn the HDD off ? So it will not be powered by supply, or it will be only disabled, so HDD will behave, like he is not plugged, so I can work on SSD and HDD is safe, that is what I need, thanks
 
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So I can shake and do what ever I want with turned on laptop with HDD drive ? It is safer than before, but HDD drive are not manufactured that they can take shaking and bumping, they will collapse, maybe not immediately, but they will not live long, and that is what I want to avoid
 
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Well, there are limits.
Why would you purposely 'shake' it?

But walking around with a running laptop? No problem. Millions of people do that every day.
 
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Tomorrow morning, being Monday, Tens of thousands of people will get on a train, bus, airplane.
With a laptop.
With that laptop being on.
With a spinning hard drive in it.

Unless they do something really dumb like actually drop it, zero of them will have a hard drive fault simply due to 'travel'.
And if you drop it, all bets are off. HDD spinning or not.
 
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Okay, so it is one possible option, travel with that turned on, we solve it , but still I would like to know, how to turn off HDD, not just for that reason, but generally, know anybody something ? and, I have one HDD failed, because a big bump by travelling... it was older HDD, but still fail because of the bump ... so, it depends, what happened in travel
 
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So again, i know it is now big danger, but the notebook will be bumped a lot in travel which I mean. In this link ( http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/35046/can-i-safely-use-a-hdd-in-a-car ) someone wrote:
"I know of several people who wrecked their netbook's HDDs by using them in cars." , I had also problem with HDD because of bumping as I wrote, so let just focus on the thing that I want, that is avoid spinning of the HDD (for example by turning him off), what do you think about disabling it in Device Manager for example ? I really appreciate any solution, thanx ;-) Can help (at least a bit) using files and programs which is only installed and stored in the SSD and avoid using anything which is on the HDD ( operation system is on the SSD of course) ?
 
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