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Vista, Power Save, Disk Drive Spin

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PhoenixOrion

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Hi,

My main rig I'm running Vista Home Premium and have a 74GB raptor boot/applications drive. I have the power save mode on "performance" with default settings.

I noticed that whenever I'm in the middle of game play or even just surfing the web that my computer freezes when the other storage drives (500GB WD and Seagates) spins up even though I'm not trying to access any files from them. It does the same thing when I actually try to open a file in any of these two storage drives.

Anyone have the same 'half second freeze'? Any way to alleviate this annoyance?
 
I've been meaning to ask about that myself. If your problem is like mine, it isn't the HDs being accessed but the DVD drives. Vista polls the DVD drives for some reason, and the system freezes like you said. It happens every so often, but I can't predict when Vista wants to see my DVDs. That's probably my biggest complaint with Vista. I'll be a happy camper if I can get it to quit that.
 
I know its the other HD's spinning up because I actually know how each drive sound like including the dvd burner.

I also have 4GB USB stick in ReadyBoost (200X Apacer Steno)...if this information matters.
 
I don't mind the half-second freeze when I actually open a file on the 2nd storage drive or the 3rd storage drive.

What's annoying is the half-second freeze when these two storage drives spin-up in the middle of gameplay when all the game content is on the boot drive and the other two drives should be inactive and stay 'spun down.'
EDIT: Pagefile is also on the boot drive/application drive.
 
Well it sounds like our problems are related, but I have no idea on how to fix it. I agree that it's very irritating when it happens.
 
hmmm....seems to have alleviated the problem....

i always have the power plan on "high performance" wherein default settings are:
1. turn off display - 20 minutes
2. put computer sleep - never
3. advanced settings - hard disk - 20 minutes

i changed the default "hard disk - 20 minutes" to 120 minutes.

lol, i guess my other storage drives will just be spinning for the next 2 hours unless i don't open any files in them.
 
Hmm, I'm glad you got the problem worked out. Mine is set to shut down disks after 20 minutes also. Maybe I'll try to bump mine up too, though I don't see why it would mess with my DVD drives at all 😕
 
I used to have this issue in XP and just figured it was something I'd have to deal with. On Vista I haven't experienced this actually. When it used to happen, I was still using PATA drives, now I'm just using a raptor and a seagate 7200.10 SATA.

 
this current setting is livable..........

i'll just have to set it to "balanced mode" monday thru friday,

then set it to "performance mode" on weekends when I use it the most.
 
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