How can I prevent my HDD from going to sleep/idle?

[2JZGTE]

Hi all,

Currently have my OS on an SSD but it's annoying that the HDD will go to sleep/idle very 10-20 minutes if I'm not using it, because I often need to "wake it up" and it freezes for a few seconds.

Is there a way to easily disable this?

 

[neblogai]

Yes- in control panel, go to power management, advanced options, and set hard drive sleep time counter to desired number in minutes.

 

[2JZGTE]

Great, thanks. For some reason Google didn't help this time