![]() I installed the awesome ‘safely remove application’ which shows which process is preventing the drive from being ejected however, they are all able to be ejected with nothing locking them up. But this shouldn’t have been a problem as it was set to backup once a month anyway and the next scheduled date was a few days forward from today. I was forced to install this after Windows 10 backup (actually windows 7 backup feature) started problematically creating the backup image with zero KB’s after a few years. Uninstalled my PC backup software ‘Aomei Backupper’ (creates an image) of Windows with all my apps in case PC dies. Temporarily Disabled ‘Storage Service’ in Windows computer management Uninstalled Intel Rapid Storage Technology Ran Chkdsk on all drives (No errors detected) Ran SFC SCANNOW in CMD (No errors detected) I ensured ‘SuperFetch’ wasn’t activated and disabled that process permanently. I have no Windows explorer windows open that would warrant to querying of the drives and the problem continues when I lock my work station when the CPU and GPU fans have stop spinning due to inactivity. I ensured page file hasn’t been created in any of the external drives. Microsoft One Drive has always been uninstalled. I tried rolling back the two Windows ten updates installed on December 2 (because this problem only started some days ago) I’ve turned off automatic (optimisation) disk defrag of drives. I’ve checked Malwarebytes isn’t scanning the drives and made exceptions for all of them just in case. Within Windows 10 power options I’ve set power saving mode and set to turn off all drives after 5 mins. Ensured indexing is turned off for all drives. Primary troubleshooting I have performed: If they were I would not be able to afford to buy them all. I can’t switch to SSD as they’re all 4tb drives and they’re not selling external 4Tb SSD’s to consumers yet as far as I’m aware. Note: They don’t get used often enough to warrant setting them to spin constantly.Īs you know it’s gonna wear them out quickly and be a very expensive exercise for me. This is despite them having been working optimally for several years before that. Over the last four days or so my five external 4Tb hard drives plugged in to my Dell via an independently powered 7 port hub have begun spinning up and spinning down every few minutes. This current problem is frustrating me to the endth degree because if I don’t solve it, it will end up costing me a lot of money due to drive wear. I downloaded a utility to manually spin down drives and I can hear each drive spinning down one by one.I was hoping someone knows how to fix the issue I am having which has delayed my troubleshooting and testing of the thermal management issue I am experiencing and kindly being assisted with in another part of this forum. The disks are just sitting with 0% usage, but they insist on spinning.Īnd it's definitely all 4 of them too. What the hell is going on? This never happened before. I've checked resource monitor and nothing seems to be touching the disks in background, I don't have a page file there, etc. It seems like they spin up, after 20 min they spin down, and ~5 min later back up again. I access the drives maybe a few times a day and I don't want them spinning all the time. It's quite annoying because my system is very quiet and the disks spinning makes the system drastically louder, plus I'm worried my disks will wear out sooner. The other day I added a 4th HDD(don't know for sure if this is even related), and now all 4 disks are constantly spinning up for seemingly no reason. Everything worked fine, the disks would remain spun down when not in use. So for a long time I had 2 SSDs and 3 HDDs with my Power Plan set to spin down disks after 20 min.
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