Win 7, Selective HDD Control

[21stHermit]

Can I selectively control different hard drives by drive letter?

What I would like is a SSD as C: for a boot drive, then a large mechanical HDD which would be commanded off unless a file was requested, it would then have to spin up before reading/writing the file. Is this possible?

Thanks

 

[MrChad]

Windows XP, Vista and 7 all have power options to turn off hard drives when idle.

 

[JackMDS]

Similar to Vista, Win 7 has advance Power Options that can be tuned.

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[corkyg]

You can also do this with a hardware solution by using mobile racks. SATA ones can be hot-switched on and off. And, you can use external drives that can be physically turned on and off.

 

[21stHermit]

Similar to Vista, Win 7 has advance Power Options that can be tuned.

I found the same control in Win XP, it appears identical to the above screen shot. Neither allows selective control by drive letter. The above control is a global command treating all HDD's the same.

I was hoping for selective control.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Swampster]

Hermit,

Give Jack's suggestion a try. Remember, your SSD drive is, for all practical purposes, in the OFF position when you are not commanding it to access a file, so this setting should serve your purpose.