Stop Your Hard Drive Turning Off After Idle In Windows 11/10
17Stop Your Hard Drive Turning Off After Idle In Windows 11/10.
The Turn off hard disk after setting in Power Options lets users set to have hard disks (HDD) power down after a specified time of HDD inactivity is detected. This setting will not affect a SSD (Solid State Drive) or NVMe.
Having your HDDs automatically turned off after being idle can help save energy and extend a PC's battery life.
When you or anything tries to access a HDD that has been turned off, there will be a delay of a few seconds as the HDD automatically spins back up and is turned back on before being able to access it.
This tutorial will show you how to turn off hard disks after being idle for specified minutes or to never in your power plan in Windows 10.
The option called Turn off hard disk after is a part of power management options of the current power plan. The user can enable or disable it. Depending of the selected power plan, it can be enabled or disabled out of the box. For example, it is enabled in the Balanced and Power Saver power profiles, and disabled in the Performance power plan.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
hard disk turn off after 20 minutes
hard drive turning on and off constantly
Hard drives are getting faster and more affordable every day, but unfortunately, their moving parts will always make them loud and mean their power draw isnβt insignificant. This can be a particular issue for those with laptops, leading many to wonder how to turn off a hard disk after it reaches an idle state.
After many years of refinement, Microsoft has realized this is a feature that users need and has included it in Windows 10 built-in power management options. Those on the Balanced and Power Saver profiles may notice that it kicks in automatically, but itβs also possible to manually enable it for all plans.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung.