Disc Drives Occasionally Spinup

[cthulhuiscool]

I just got a new rig thew it together but I've been having some issue with the hdds. Occasionally they seem to pause accessibility and I can hear them spinning up as if the computer is booting again. It isn't all at once, just one at a time and only ever 1-2 hrs of computer or so, usually when I do something which would scan them or something like that (run auslogic disc defrag, attempt to format one, ect) but sometimes just happens randomly like I'm listening to music off that drive and it freezes or something like that. I have 4x 500gb hitachi deskstars in it, they are kinda old (made in late 2007) but I would expect they to not be at fault, so I'm wondering what could cause this issue and of course how to fix it?

PC specs:
i5 3570k
biostar tz77b
Antec enthusiast 650w psu
AMD HD 4870

I do have sata configuration set in the bios as "raid," and for some reason it will not boot under any of the other settings "IDE" and something else. Could this possibly be an issue?

 

[Dangman]

Probably the drives are failing or you didn't hook up the power connectors to the HDD well.

 

[mwroobel]

Do you have these drives set to spin down for power savings? Is it always about the same time period?

 

[drescherjm]

Do you have these drives set to spin down for power savings? Is it always about the same time period?

Agreed. Windows I believe sets the spindown time to 20 minutes so if you did not change that this is the expected behavior.

 

[cthulhuiscool]

I think that may have been the culprit, i set the spindown time to never and we'll see if that fixes the issue.

Question: does that setting mean they shutdown after x minutes of system inactivity or just the individual drive's inactivity?

Yup that solved it, thanks

 

[gkg101]

Individual drive inactivity.