disable one of my hard disks in the setup

[Ragid]

Suppose I disable one of my hard disks in the setup program, would that
cause this hard disk not to work and even not to consume electricity?
Regards
Ragid

 

[David B.]

What setup program? If your talking about disabling it in BIOS that will not
prevent the drive from spinning up, it just prevents the system from
detecting that it's there.

 

[Ragid]

Thanks David,
I really meant what you talked about.
Is that any other way to prevent the spinning up apart from physical
disconnection?
Regards
Ragid

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Thanks David,
I really meant what you talked about.
Is that any other way to prevent the spinning up apart from physical
disconnection?
Regards
Ragid

Hard drive spinning doesn't consume much electricity. However, your
power settings can include turning off the hard disk(s) after a certain
period of inactivity.

Bill

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Thanks David,
I really meant what you talked about.
Is that any other way to prevent the spinning up apart from physical
disconnection?
Regards
Ragid

No, because the BIOS does not control the power supply connectors, and the
drives have no remote switches (which would require power to operate).

HTH
-pk

 

[Tim Meddick]

As "Bill Sharpe" says in his post; you can configure the hard disks to stop
spinning due to a period of inactivity.

I have mine set to 15 minutes, then I hear them die down, only to start up
again when they are needed (being read/written to) some time later.

This can be especially important on battery-mode laptops.

It can be configured by going to 'Control Panel' > 'Power Options' and you
will see one of the boxes labelled : 'Turn off hard disks' - set this value
to something smaller but reasonable - say 10 - 15 minutes.

Hope this is of some help to you.


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.