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I am trying to get my PC to be silent. Unfortunately, there is one physical drive (HDD) that just wont stop spinning (and therefore makes a lot of noise). It is only used for data storage, there is no active program that is using the drive. Windows and all the applications I'm using are installed on other drives (SSDs).

The drive is set to be stopped after three minutes of inactivity - yet it will happily spin along for hours:

screenshot - Drive sleep settings

Ressource Monitor shows no Programm using the drive:

screenshot - Resource Monitor

Does someone have any Idea what might be causing the drive to stay active and how I might fix this?

I am using windows 10, MSI B350 Motherboard, ryzen 1600. The drive in question is a 2TB Seagate.

Charles Kenyon
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  • Is there any chance the the particular power plan (High Performance) is not the active one when the drive keeps spinning? Also, you might try a third-party tool such as revoSleep, https://www.meinfach.net/revosleep/ , though I've not used it myself. – DrMoishe Pippik Mar 25 '21 at 01:03
  • Is the Windows virus checker looking at the disk? It runs at a service in the background. – Aganju Mar 25 '21 at 01:52
  • And indexing on the disk is disabled? If not - then it will constantly index the contents in the background. Plus background checking for viruses. – Alex_Krug Mar 25 '21 at 04:53
  • "makes a lot of noise" relative to what? Unless the machine is entirely fanless, you'd need your ear right next to an HDD to hear it spinning. Simply closing the case should be sufficient to damp it. – Tetsujin Mar 25 '21 at 09:45
  • @DrMoishePippik I checked, the right power plan is active. – Max Mar 25 '21 at 09:52
  • @Aganju not that I know of - it doesn't show up in resource monitor at least. How would I find out? – Max Mar 25 '21 at 09:53
  • @Alex_Krug yes, indexing is disabled. – Max Mar 25 '21 at 09:53
  • @Tetsujin The PC has a passively cooled graphics card, a silent PSU, a overkill CPU heatsink and a case with fans focused on being silent. The HDD is the loudest by an order of magnitude, case open or closed. – Max Mar 25 '21 at 09:55

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