I know that these hard disks are 2.5” and are used in laptops, which are then moved or ‘tossed’ around, and that this short time is a way of protecting the disk but still, performance and durability suffers if you have a disk that is constantly spinning up and down. I would like that WD makes some small utility that would allow me to permanently increase the time after which hard disk stops spinning. There are many third-party utilities that allow to increase that period, however all these utilities have to be loaded every time OS starts. Many people on the internet complain about this. I wish that WD made clear that newer hard disks have such aggressive protection or energy management (whatever it is), because it doesn’t suit my need. Older WD hard disks continue spinning for cca 5minutes of inactivity, and I find that more pleasing for work. So in regular use my disk keeps spinning up and down therefore slowing down overall performance. However 15 seconds is still very short period. After spending a day researching on internet I found this is a normal thing on this hard disk. I admit I exaggerated a bit saying it happens after 5 seconds. If you listen closely you can hear that after eight seconds of inactivity, hard disk parks it’s head, and after about 15 seconds of inactivity, the drive stops spinning.
Here’s my mail:įirst I have to say that I use WD blue hard disk as my secondary disk, my primary/OS disk is a ssd. CrystalDiskInfo has to be loaded with Windows every time to make this fix work. Unfortunately, it’s only a fix, not a solution.
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