Intermittent hard drive spin-up

[blankwire]

Every now and then (I don't know if it's a pattern), my computer's SATA hard drive(s?) will spin up, causing a slowdown. I have all of the latest drivers and BIOS updates, and I even tried disabling my motherboard's JMicron IDE drivers to see if that was the problem.

It just started occurring recently, but I can't pin it down to anything. I don't have any process intensive or rogue software running, but I don't think my hardware is about to go either, since I don't witness any other aliments.

 

[wildfire99]

So if the drive spinning UP is the issue, the real problem is that at some point the drive is spinning down. That's usually power management trying to save electricity. Check your OS' power management settings, especially the 'turn off hard disks' setting . If it's an external drive you might be SOL.