HDD Slow to respond???

rhs815

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Have a 2tb Samsung HDD connected as a slave to an asus p8z68-v pro/gen3. For some reason it sometimes takes 3 or 4 seconds for the slave to respond, you can hear it spinning up for a few seconds then a faint click and it works again at proper speed. Have I disabled something? After it has done this once it won't do it again until its been rebooted. It's really confusing and its only intermittent, any ideas people?
 

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As a slave? I doubt there are any 2TB IDE drives out there.

It's possible you have windows set to spin drives down after X amount of time? Go into the power options and leave the drives spinning all the time.
 

rhs815

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It said 20 minutes in the power options so I changed it to never, I will be sooo happy if it's something that simple!!! I thought I'd played with the BIOS too much :)