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Stop Hard Drive from waking up after Sleep?
I use my PC mostly for studying. I take frequent breaks during these study sessions and put my PC to sleep to limit dust entering its case and also to save power. I have an SSD (where Windows resides) ...
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Black screen after Windows logo. What is happening to my machine?
I downloaded a PDF version of a book from internet archives on my smartphone and transferred it to my PC via Bluetooth, read it for 10-15 mins, and then attended a call from a friend while my PC was ...
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Hard Disk disappears after a long sleep time
Recently everytime the laptop is in sleep mode for a long time the HDD does not show up anymore. But after a reboot it shows up as usual.
I have a dual disk setup with the OS in the SSD. The HDD model ...
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What may be causing C Drive storage increases of more than 20GB overnight?
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Windows 10 user here. As the title says, somehow overnight my C drive has been populated with 20GB of data overnight. The situation happened recently, and is something new, as it has not ...
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External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY
External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY:
I've been a tech 30 years, I've NEVER seen this before. This is not a question I have ever encountered. Toshiba Canvio (Nightmare) external 3tb drive ...
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Make Windows wake up from SSD before HDDs do
I have a PC running Windows 10 and all the programs off an NVME SSD, with two additional HDDs for storing media and other files. When the PC wakes up from sleep, I hear HDDs spinning up and then it ...
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How to set all HDD drives always on and prevent from sleeping or spin down in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
On a pretty large system with 1,000+ HDD drives I have a problem where HDD drives are going to sleep or spinning down.
The system is running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as stated in title, but I think it is ...
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Windows won’t boot first time but does second time
I have a problem with my work laptop that it a little hard to describe in one sentence.
After having new ram added as well as a second nvme drive, my laptop now never boots when I first turn it on. It ...
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My desktop keeps hard drives on in sleep mode
When I put my PC in sleep mode, my SSD stays on. I see that the LED on SSD is still lighting in sleep mode and I also hear some other HDD or HDDs spinning. How can I set my PC to turn off not ...
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Prevent external hard drive from sleeping Windows 10
I have Windows 10 Pro on MS Surface go 2.
The external HDD is connected with USB3.0 hub.
All works fine, but once the HDD is for like 10 sec inactive, it's going to sleep right away.
I haven't found ...
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SSD: Does frequent powercycling / high number of power on count reduce lifetime?
Frequent power cycling on rotating HDDs decreases lifetime, I know that.
Since on SSDs there are no moving parts I would expect that powercylcing them wouldn't reduce their lifetime. So you can easily ...
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My HDD keeps waking up from sleep even though there's nothing being accessed
I've tried many different suggestions found online such as disabling the prefetch, superfetch. Excluded the HDD from windows defender. Turned off storport with a registry edit. Disabled shadowcopy as ...
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How to check whether HDD is sleeping?
There is a setting in Windows power settings to put HDD to sleep when innactive. I would like to know when exactly this setting is getting applied to have better understanding/control of power ...
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Spinning disks + Hibernate/Suspend
Is it possible to put a linux system into suspend or hibernate mode and let the HDDs spinning? I have a proxmox setup as a NAS and i would like to save power during the night but I don't want to harm ...
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Disk goes to sleep a lot
Running PopOS-20 /ubuntu based. This is a secondary box I use for backups etc.
I have a 750GB HD. What's weird with that one, and something I have never had with any disk before, is that it goes to ...
