Hard drives taking long time to seek.

[stipalgl]

Hey guys,

I've been dealing with this "issue" for the past two months and ignored it until now.

My system contains 2 1TB hard drives and 2 500GB drives. One 1TB is used as the primary drive, while the other three are all for storage.

The issue is that when I click on either secondary drive and try to fire something up, it takes a good 10 seconds (approximately) before the disk responds. During this time, I can hear the drive spin and quickly click.

The drives are as follows:

- 1TB Caviar Black (acting as OS drive)
- 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 (storage)
- 500 GB Caviar Green (storage)
- 500 GB Caviar Green (storage)

I'm running Windows 7 and the long seek times are becoming annoying. Is this simply something I have to accept or is there an issue perhaps with the motherboard being saturated? I'm running a Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P AM3 board with an Athlon X2 250.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Idontcare]

Are you sure you don't have the drives set to power-down after so many minutes of idle? Waiting for a disk to spin up for about 10s is what usually happens if the drive has been put to sleep.

 

[Rifter]

make sure they never spin down. It sounds like you have your power management set to spin down the drives when not in use, and its taking the 10 seconds to spin them back up.