A question about an Advanced Power Setting dealing with the hard drive.


xlr8tx

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Hello All.

I was looking through the advanced power settings on my new laptop when I saw that the hard drive (or "hard disk", as it's labeled, even though it's an SSD) is set to "Turn Off" after only one (1) minute on both battery power and while plugged in.

Is this a normal amount of time for this setting? It seems rather short to me.

Should I change it?

Any insights and advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
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There is no setting for SSD. That's only for HDD - if you have any (if not - it does nothing - obviously). If that setting would apply to the SSD that would be bad - since your SSD would power off (only thing it can do - since it doesn't have moving parts like an HDD or a standby mode if not in use).
 

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