Power Scheme specific Hard Disks?

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Is there any 3rd party program that will allow me to create a custom Power Scheme so I can choose to have only certain hard disks go to power off after XX minutes of inactivity? Windows only seems to have the option for all hard drives.
 
Is there a specific reason that you'd want to spin down your drives? It creates more wear and tear spining up and down than just leaving them on.
 
Vertigo Acid said:
Is there a specific reason that you'd want to spin down your drives? It creates more wear and tear spining up and down than just leaving them on.
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I'm not entirely sure I agree with this.

Running a drive that's doing nothing for 2 days, letting it generate all that heat has *got* to be worse than only powering the drive up on the "once in a blue moon" you need it.

My in home dell server has 4 drives. - They run all the time because they are in raid 0+1

However, my big beast with 12HDD's doesn't need all 12 running simultaneously.

My storage array with raid5? Yeah.
 
Malogato said:
Running a drive that's doing nothing for 2 days, letting it generate all that heat has *got* to be worse than only powering the drive up on the "once in a blue moon" you need it.
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If that were how it actually worked, then i'd probably agree with you. But not only is windows not very smart about when to spin up/down, but also, how often are you really going to not use a hard drive for 2 days and then use? In that case, it would make more sense to have an external drive which you can selectively power up when needed.
 
Well it's just that I like to have my OS/Apps drives running 24/7. But a majority of my storage drives are only used once every few days. I do have an external hard drive but getting enclosures and wasting space with more isn't a viable option for me.

Was just curious if there is such a program. If not then oh well.
 
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