How do I keep my hard drives ready/spun up?

chedderslam1976

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EVGA classified mobo running raid 5 to three terabyte drives for my d drive. Every time I want to access the drive, I hear the three drives spin up one at a time in sequence and have to wait. How can I keep them ready?

Win 7 pro 64
 
What kind of drives are they? If they're low-power "green" drives then it's normal for the drive firmware to spin the platters down if they haven't been accessed for several seconds - that's a function of the drive itself, not the RAID controller, and AFAIK there's nothing you can do to stop it short of having a program that accesses the drives (bypassing Windows caching) every few seconds.
 

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Drives are spinpoint f1 raid edition. I went into power management and the hard drives are set to turn off after 20 minutes. I can't see how to disable this. I tried increasing the value but it resets to 20 minutes.