Hi, I'm not really a data hoarder but I thought you all might know more about HDDs than the average bear.
I bought a 6tb refurb helium 7200 rpm drive from goharddrive to put in my new pc, just to have some cheap secondary storage (main is a 2tb m.2 ssd partitioned into .3/1.6). I was thinking I'd only use the spinny drive rarely to keep the ssd from filling up or if I downloaded a car or whatever. And that I'd set it to power down after 5 minutes and I'd rarely hear it.
But although it's not loud I hear it always. I looked in process monitor and although there's nothing on the drive yet, perfmon.exe and powershell.exe are checking it constantly. (maybe svchost.exe and chrome.exe and nvidia overlay too, but I don't understand what process monitor is telling me). I got windows defender to leave it alone.
I can't figure out how to tell windows to chill out about my E drive and let it go to sleep. The best plan I have to make my pc silent again is to leave the hdd in the bay but unplug it from my power supply unless I'm actually needing it. or returning it or ignoring it. I don't like any of those options. Why bother giving me the power option after x minutes of unuse if windows is going to "use" it every second anyways?