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Hey lads, got a problem with an external HDD.
Basically, since I go back and forth between my main computer and my desktop I've had the idea of putting all my files on a portable device, i.e. an external HDD which I plug in via USB.
Here's the problem: whenever I want to access files from the HDD, it takes two seconds everytime for the thing to spin up. When I save a file also, it takes a whole two seconds. This wouldn't be bad if this delay didn't become cumulative. Not even a minute after I browsed or saved the files I needed, the HDD spools back down again and needs to be "reawoken" once more.
How do I make it so my portable HDD operates as a "regular" built in hard drive like that which is actually inside your computer, so always ready to go, in a sense? For the HDD to always spin up and down is bad because it increases wear, I'd like it to remain in a ready state whenever my computer is on, be it my desktop or my laptop.
If it helps I'm using Win10.
I looked up solutions, tried going into Control panel > Power saving options > Advanced power saving options and set hard disk deactivation timer to Never, didn't work, so I set it to 60 minutes, and the HDD again spooled down anyway. Completely worthless option, it really does nothing, I wonder why it's even there.
Should I be using a flash drive or SSD instead for this use case? If it wasn't apparent, I must admit I'm not the most tech savvy person, forgive my retardation there
Basically, since I go back and forth between my main computer and my desktop I've had the idea of putting all my files on a portable device, i.e. an external HDD which I plug in via USB.
Here's the problem: whenever I want to access files from the HDD, it takes two seconds everytime for the thing to spin up. When I save a file also, it takes a whole two seconds. This wouldn't be bad if this delay didn't become cumulative. Not even a minute after I browsed or saved the files I needed, the HDD spools back down again and needs to be "reawoken" once more.
How do I make it so my portable HDD operates as a "regular" built in hard drive like that which is actually inside your computer, so always ready to go, in a sense? For the HDD to always spin up and down is bad because it increases wear, I'd like it to remain in a ready state whenever my computer is on, be it my desktop or my laptop.
If it helps I'm using Win10.
I looked up solutions, tried going into Control panel > Power saving options > Advanced power saving options and set hard disk deactivation timer to Never, didn't work, so I set it to 60 minutes, and the HDD again spooled down anyway. Completely worthless option, it really does nothing, I wonder why it's even there.
Should I be using a flash drive or SSD instead for this use case? If it wasn't apparent, I must admit I'm not the most tech savvy person, forgive my retardation there
