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re: Disk Won't Sleep
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jon
(3 messages posted)
The issue here isn't old hardware but new. I can hardly hear the drive at all, but
the drive has a built in fan. Even the slightest access, like reading one byte of
information from the disk, will cause the fan to activate. That fan will then run
for three minutes. This is a sharp contrast to the 30 seconds the CPU fan runs every
half hour or so.
Some random windows process is accessing some random file every 4-5 minutes, and
so there is very little 'quiet time'. I'm thinking that I should move the whole os
onto a USB flash drive to avoid this. The three minute fan wouldn't bug me if it
only ran when I was starting up a program like photoshop, or saving a file. but this
constant XP file checking has the fan running all the time for no reason, and the
temp monitors seem to indicate that there is actually no reason to run the fan, other
than that the os instructed it to do so.
- Written in response to:
- re: Disk Won't Sleep (Jon: Monday, December 3, 2007 at 7:07 am)
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