I really can't google this one out, so if someone could give me some advice
I'm on a laptop, I'm using Windows 8.1 currently
Recently I bought an SSD and set it up as my system drive
I've taken out my CD drive and inserted a hard drive bay where I have a 1TB WD Blue
If I'm not accessing the 1TB drive it goes to sleep/standby/stops spinning every 20 seconds
In Power Management the drives are set to shutdown in 10 minutes (not 20 seconds)
For example, I'm listening to music, and I stop playback. About 20 seconds passes and the drive spins down. What is going on? I've read that drives go to sleep but after 10, 15, 20 minutes, not every 20 seconds. Is the hard drive bay firmware doing this maybe? Or is this a feature of modern drives? Won't this make the drive die sooner, wear it out? When I resume music playback there's a pause until the hard drive starts spinning again and it's kind of annoying, is there a cure for this?
I've had this 1TB drive as my main drive, and a smaller SSD in the CD drive bay with Ubuntu on it, and it never behaved like this, it would shutdown after couple of minutes, if I remember correctly.
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