Recent content by BaltarWithSix

This forum is no help. I just have to physically remove the sata cables from the drives to make them silent and then connect them again if I want to use the dries. Win 7 is still the best!

Clean boot did not made any difference. I set all HDD-s as Offline. They are not even showing up on My Computer anymore SO it does not matter if it has bitlocker auto-enabled/disabled WHY they spin up in every 15 minutes or so? I recently had different motherboard with Win 10 - Same problem...

One side note: If my HDD-s happened to be turned off (not spinning) and I shut down/restart my PC - they all spin up before shut down/restart. Seems really pointless for windows to spin them up just before shut down...

"System" and "Service host: Windows Event Log" were on top when one or all of the HDD-s spin up. While they spin up, I was just reading this forum and IMDB.com movie news.

They seem to be spinning up at the same time mostly (this time F did not spin up but few minutes later). Task manager shows spike when they spin up and then 0% for 10 minutes until they spin down again (I set the spindown to 10 min as 120 min did not help at all.) All HDD-s are bitlocker...

Set to 120 min. The HDD-s do not spin down at all - apparently because some unknown process uses my HDD-s in every 5-10 minutes...

I will try today but that does not make any sense to me...

I have Win 11 installed on my SSD but I also have three HDD-s where I keep my pictures, videos, backups etc. I have set the HDD-s to spin down after 10min in idle which they do BUT they spin up again in a few minutes. So I hear constant spin-down and spin-up. WHY? I have tried to un-mount the...