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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 12:45
Switching to Ahci/Ide
I have a 1tb 7200 rpm hdd, and a 256gb M.2 SSD (with OS)

My HDD won't spin down when idle (set it in battery). (I am on a laptop so the sound is annoying and hard to remove HDD)

I found out that switching to AHCI or IDE may fix it.

How do I change my hard drive to AHCI and IDE (incase I switch back). And will it damage my M.2 somehow by changing the [only] sata?
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Bad 💀 Motha 23/fev./2017 às 13:05 
It's a laptop; if it was designed for Win7 or later, it should already be in AHCI mode.
There usually is not mode to change on most Laptops; cause you want it on AHCI mode for any modern OS.
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 13:05 
Yes, but the m.2 ssd has the os
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 13:17 
So I just discovered it is AHCI... will IDE fix it?
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Bad 💀 Motha 23/fev./2017 às 13:18 
You can't use IDE mode.
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 13:19 
oh
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Bad 💀 Motha 23/fev./2017 às 13:22 
Why not turn it into an external USB 3.0 drive if you don't use it that much?

Can get an External Enclose that has SATA inside, USB 2.0/3.0 outside
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 13:32 
I think I found a fix, but waiting for it to finish. Turned off indexing for the hard drive
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Bad 💀 Motha 23/fev./2017 às 13:36 
That should already disabled cause the OS is on SSD (when using Win8/8.1/10)
But yes worth a shot.
Disable Windows Search service too.
Searching still functions with this service disabled. As the search itself works in-conjunction with Indexing
Última edição por Bad 💀 Motha; 23/fev./2017 às 13:37
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 14:04 
Did not work
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 14:04 
Resource moniter occosionaly shows 0.01 for active time... why??
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Bad 💀 Motha 23/fev./2017 às 14:06 
Screenshot it please cause that info is very vague.

It is most likely the background disk defrag. Unless you want to sit around for hours doing that manually on a mechanical drive, yes let Windows do that in the background.
Última edição por Bad 💀 Motha; 23/fev./2017 às 14:07
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 14:10 
I can't stand the noise... it is pretty loud and its position makes it right in my face
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 14:11 
Is it steam's auto-update by any chance? Even when I exit steam does it still update?
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Bad 💀 Motha 23/fev./2017 às 14:15 
Escrito originalmente por A perfectly normal person:
Is it steam's auto-update by any chance? Even when I exit steam does it still update?

No, not possible.

Game would only be able to update while Steam Client is running, in the Downloads tab.
If there is an update to the Client itself, it notifies you. Steam can't do anything when exited fully. But make sure the Steam Windows Service is on Manual, not Auto. And don't have Steam Client in your OS Startup.

Did you run the diagnostics on the HDD?
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Medic Gaming 23/fev./2017 às 14:34 
yes.. all seemed fine
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