Launch application or open a folder

>launch application or open a folder
>wait
>hear HDD wake up
>wait
>finally fucking loads

>open a folder on my second HDD
>wait
>external drive wakes up, even though the folder is not on the external drive
>wait 10 seconds for the external drive to start up
>finally fucking loads
>external drive shuts off again after 20 seconds

Turn off HDD standby in your power settings? Keep them always running. Dumb complaint. sage.

>sleeping
>wake up in the middle of night for no reason
>5 seconds later hear unused storage hard drive spool up in the middle of night

>SSD

>buy 250GB SSD to replace the 120GB one
>throw the 1TB HDD into the trash
>no more spinning or other weird tricks

>right click on desktop
>wait
>hear HDD spin up
>wait
>finally context menu shows up
there is no program context menu entry that is on my HDD
why would it work this way

these are the worse. HDDs waking up for no fucking reason

>turn PC off at night
>2am
>HDD spins up

turn off HDD power saving features, problem solved. It's actually better for a HDDs lifespan to continuously run than stop and power up frequently.

>It's actually better for a HDDs lifespan to continuously run than stop and power up frequently.

>get ssd
>get ramdisk
>just work

Isn't this basically a Windows thing?

is it better even if I leave my PC on 24/7? Also, does the power draw increase by any significant amount? i.e. will I feel it in my elec. bill?

Still happens. I snached a server HDD in my work PC, even if I open something like Skype or Putty, I still sometimes have to wait for the HDD.

>switch to jewbot 10
>try to install my everyday cad tools
>get forced by all of them to install literally tens of different versions of c++ redistributable and dotnet framework packages
>click on trust application upon literally hundreds of times of antivirus prompt popups
>having finished flooding my system with dependencies, do a fresh restart
>double click to launch application or open a folder
>wait
>start wondering what's wrong, have I really double clicked
>keep waiting, something is definitely wrong
>try to do a right click, no response
>check the time, it's been over a minute
>go into the kitchen to get some coffee, thinking what the fuck is wrong
>grab a mug and come back after a few mins
>encounter the same blank desktop smirking at me
>wait a few mins more
>miracle happens and antivir prompts me to trust the application
>abort it with rage and launch browser
>wait
>you know the drill
>ten mins later, decide to disable the antivirus
>continue using the pc without antivirus protection or any windows updates ever since
get on my level desu

KeepAliveHD. Literally the only solution that worked for me. I have no problem with this shit ever since.

when a bad hdd stops your system from getting past post at boot

*sweats on forehead*

> happened twice now......

the only antivirus protection you need is CommonSense™ 2013 Pro

>i.e. will I feel it in my elec. bill?
Probably, but it shouldn't be that much. I leave my pc on 24/7. Haven't shut it down other than to clean fans every 6-8 months.

Windows does this all the time when I delete something from 1 drive. It needs to start up the others first. Linux doesn't have this problem. I can also control which drives are spun up/down in linux, but not in windows.

well, the only problem is I watch quite a lot of online tv streams on heavily infested websites

Windows is very shit at handing HDDs, even connecting a dying external HDD can grind your entire PC to a halt. I suspect it's waiting for data from external HDD to arrive in order to issue more read commands instead of accessing both drives independently on each other.

>still happens
>HDD

Well, yeah. SSD and HDD are different things.

This only happens when you don't buy Microsoft™ Certified Partner© Hard Disk Drives.

malwarebytes is what you need. not an anti-virus

Linux is pretty shit too, I had a perfectly functional drive, as in there was nothing physically wrong with it, but it had a fucked MBR/partition table. Connecting the drive to a Linux PC would literally cause it to kernel panic within a few seconds of the drive being plugged in. Windows wasn't able to do anything with it either, but it didn't bring the whole system down, the HDD was just unusable. I eventually fixed it (on Linux) by writing a script which zeroed the MBR and partition table immediately as the device appeared when plugged in using an USB dock. Strange as all fuck to kernel panic due to a bad storage medium though, this was a few years ago.

>go on Sup Forums
>people complaining about problems the modern world solved years ago

This veiled star wars quote made me chuckle

how so?

If your internal drive is doing that bullshit remove that "feature" pronto.
It doesn't extend the drive life, seriously.

>not placing a nas in another room with hard drives always spinning and using sshfs to mount it at boot specifically to eliminate hard drive noise in your room because you have that shitty s340 meme case that has a drive cage built like an amplifier for hard drives

i have a similar thing right now with a ntsf drive. it loads fine in windows but won't even mount in linux. tried everything and im all out of ideas

Anybody with any common sense has long since switched to SSD for their boot drive, user.

>shut down desktop
>go to bed
>ten minutes pass
>external hard drive starts clicking and spinning

4 HDD nas systems are expensive, besides you have to be careful as manufacturers of HDDs seems to separate their products by nas comparability now.

Has nothing to do with the boot drive you dip

yeah, such as me, 7 years ago. but I've still got that problem.

i built mine out of an old am2 computer and a raid controller
it takes forever to build everything because i have no idea how to cross compile but it works like a charm

If it's partition table related the easiest and probably quickest way to solve it is to just copy the data somewhere else and repartition the drive. No use agonizing over a potential non-destructive solution since it will probably just take longer anyway.

>SSD
>no whirring or clicks
>no waiting

>open app not on the main drive

Is this some sort of autistic meme?

im just amazed windows is fine with it being messed up

Eh, I don't think NTFS support is that amazing in Linux. It's not surprising Windows handles it better really, it is its own FS after all. I've had Linux doing weird shit with NTFS before, which Windows doesn't do.

>click hyperlink in Hexchat
>external HDD that only contains movies spins up first
>Link in browser finally loads
>Would be better off copy pasting the URL
>External HDD has tens of thousands of spin ups on record as a result
>Somehow has not failed yet

>listening some music doing paperwork
>folderopening.mp3

this is impossible

hey retard, it often starts up irrelevant HDD's even if it has nothing to do with the action, as already mentioned ITT

You ain't getting a virus without clicking on a bad .exe.

Also, you are an idiot if you execute programs that you don't know how they got on your computer.

Watching TV streams online don't really require you to download anything, let alone exes.

Also, block ads with unlock or similar.

You forgot
>no space

>Nonsense repeated as fact

Get an SSD and enter into the modern age

I already have an SSD retard. the issue is windows waking up random HDD's for no fucking reason

>implying this causes noticable latency if the application isn't on the hdd

Using a 386 user?

Turn off indexing on you external drives

i7-6700 SanDisk SSD Plus.

Windows just has delays because its garbage.

it literally freezes until windows wakes up the random hdd

ssd does not stand for server disk drive moron

>indexing
>when the computer is powered off

Malwarebytes is genuinely amazing at blocking that crap. Try it out.

Indexing is off.

*takes notes*

>install 960 evo
>turn on computer
>immediately drop my phone
>look up from grabbing it and my computer is already at the desktop

no one here is talking about the boot up time of the PC. OP here and I have and SSD for my OS, and still have the problem I mentioned in the OP

this
I've got the very same issue of no response

>the issue is windows
Maybe do something about that instead of bitching.

>instead of bitching.
mentioning a retarded issue of windows is bitching?

gtfo of my thread if you don't like it.

Assuming you're running Wangblows:
>go to energy settings
>advanced settings
>"turn off drives after X minutes" or something like that
>set to 0

Now your drives won't turn off anymore.

I know, but that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater

>gtfo of my thread
Fuck off, nigger.

lel triggered.

Stay mad, nigger.

>says the triggered and mad nigger
please go on, your autism is entertaining.

>says the butthurt nigger OP

no u

>implying I am OP

cross compile what? RAID?

>4 drive RAID
>staggered spin up
>have to wait for 4 drives to spin up one at a time to access my meme folder

They've disabled all kinds of caching for hdds in 10. One more reason not use it.

>boot up computer
>hangs at splash for a minute
>disconnect hdd
>it boots
I'm really getting tired of this shit

a computer isn't fully off until disconnected from mains and the cr2032 removed

no programs
i run linux on the nas so i must compile programs and their updates and it is slow

>letting your HDD spin down