"Power Saving" Program? (Harddrives!)

[Supratik]

Hey guys,

In my server computer, I have 6 harddrives. As you can imagine, this can make the computer quite hot/loud, as its in an Antec Sonata case. Utilizing the Windows Power Manager, I can turn the monitor off in 20 minutes, but for some reason the "turn harddrives off" function doesn't work for me, and the harddrives stay on.

I was wondering if they are any 3rd-party power management programs that can let me turn the harddrives off at will or after a certain amount of time.

Any recommendations are appreciated.

Thank you!

- Supratik

 

[Supratik]

*bump*

 

[Ice Czar]

you have of course disabled the indexing service for them

 

[Supratik]

Err...

An update, first. The harddrives do turn off now, but they randomly turn themselves back on for no particular reason. I assume that this is due to the indexing - how would I go about disabling this?

Thanks.

 

[larryBird44]

I am pretty sure its in "Services" control panel.

 

[Ice Czar]

in Windows Explorer, RClick each Drive and select Properties
uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"

then if you want it system wide

Start > Run > (type) services.msc > Dclick Indexing Service > Startup Type > Manual or Disabled