2nd hard drive randomly spins up?
So issue that's been going on for kinda awhile, my 2nd hard drive randomly spins up every like 40 minutes for no reason as far as I know. Not sure how long it's been happening since just noticed it one day, but pretty annoying watching something, laying in bed or web browsing and hearing my hard drive randomly spin up(plus it's extra wear on the drive).

So far I've done a virus scan(which took like 4 and a half hours but was clean), opened resource monitor and saw steam for some reason accessing a game I didn't have linked to my library on steam but editing the name stopped it, and searching Google but seems everything I found was either linked to Windows 10 and the creator's update or they didn't really find a solution(or it was issues with main drives, not the 2nd drive).

Got an ssd/hdd setup, ssd boot drive with hdd storage for everything that isn't the os(or programs I'm guessing need to be on the os drive, like msi afterburner, steam and av). Os is Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it?

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1. resident shield of your antivirus is doing its scan.
2. a program is trying to access your secondary drive.

you can take a look at your task manager to see which program (from both ssd and hdd) are using system resources.
𝔇ave Oct 20, 2017 @ 3:09am 
Probably windows indexing service
Kottonmouthking Oct 20, 2017 @ 3:17am 
1. resident shield of your antivirus is doing its scan.
2. a program is trying to access your secondary drive.

you can take a look at your task manager to see which program (from both ssd and hdd) are using system resources.
As far as I know my av only scans manually unless you pay, plus I usually turn off automatic everything on my pc since I like manually updating and stuff. Plus every 40 minutes seems kinda excessive for any av, I know it is a possibility

And would I have to look at more than just the disk tab of resource monitor to see what's trying to access the disk? Because I always see stuff accessing my ssd but ever since I changed the name of the one game steam kept trying to access it hasn't really shown anything accessing my hdd unless I'm accessing it myself. I've even went as far as keeping resource monitor open on a 2nd display and looking at it the second I heard my drive spin up but saw nothing accessing my f drive(nothing on the list or usage graph)
Kottonmouthking Oct 20, 2017 @ 4:38am 
Originally posted by Ðavз:
Probably windows indexing service
Would that be accessing my storage drive every 40 minutes though? Think seen issues with it on windows 10, but not windows 7
𝔇ave Oct 20, 2017 @ 4:50am 
Before I switched to an ssd I remember my mechanical hdd doing all sorts of random things.. Noises... Unwarranted spin up.. Just the nature of the device.. It annoyed me enough to buy an ssd and for storage I use an external non mechanical drive.. Only thing I ever hear now is the cpu fan during loading screens..
Kottonmouthking Oct 20, 2017 @ 5:23am 
Originally posted by Ðavз:
Before I switched to an ssd I remember my mechanical hdd doing all sorts of random things.. Noises... Unwarranted spin up.. Just the nature of the device.. It annoyed me enough to buy an ssd and for storage I use an external non mechanical drive.. Only thing I ever hear now is the cpu fan during loading screens..
I never really noticed much hdd noise on my desktop except when it was sitting for awhile, but guess might have just tuned it out like any other background noise(pc is also on the floor, less noise). Now I have an ssd and hear it spinning up when I'm not even using it so kinda became aware of all the hard drive noises, it gets quite annoying
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Date Posted: Oct 20, 2017 @ 2:32am
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