I hear my hard drives spinning

[tigersty1e]

I know the hard drives spinning noise is normal, but I hear the disks spinning even when the computer is idling.

What's going on?

 

[Sdiver2489]

Hard drives are always spinning unless you choose to spin them down in your power management profile

 

[tigersty1e]

If I spin them down, how much computer speed will I lose?

I play games on my system.

 

[Gerbil333]

None, he meant they'll turn off when you leave the computer for X minutes/hours, but turn back on as soon as you wake the computer. There's no speed loss because the drive(s) will run as normal when you're using the machine. Well, it might take a few seconds for them to spin up to full speed if they've been powered down, but that's different...

Look up hard drives; I don't think you understand how they operate.

 

[Nocturnal]

There's no harm in hearing them spin.

 

[Elias824]

if its to noisy you can always buy a casing or a silencer for them

 

[Blain]

Try reading some threads instead of generating more... and more... and more... :roll:
It's amazing what you can find out by actually reading.

 

[0roo0roo]

in powermanagement you can set them to spin down at X minutes or never. its best to spin down after a while to save power and wear unless you are constantly using it. drives don't spin up and down fast enough to simply spin down on every idle moment. plus the wear and power usage would make it pointless. it just can't do the speed step thing the same way some cpus can

 

[corkyg]

At least you know they are running OK. Spinning is fine - seeking is another matter.

 

[Dwebtron]

Originally posted by: corkyg
At least you know they are running OK. Spinning is fine - seeking is another matter.

If you hear a ticking noise, that means the drive is working (seeking, writing/reading data) and then you'd have an issue. Just hearing the spinning is completely normal.

 

[engiNURD]

They were made to keep spinning... leave them spinning.