second hdd too often wake up and hard make it sleep.

Question

Hi! I have old laptop lenovo y580 (core i5 3210m + ssd + hdd) on win11. second drive very often wakes up and make a lot of nose. in half cases i can see in Resource Monitor that "System" read $LogFile and $Mft on all logical disks of 2nd hdd. Other processes read this file regularly too (lsass.exe and MsMpEng.exe). In other half cases resourse monitor can not see any requests to 2-nd hdd but i clearly hear that it is go spin up. i suspect that it is some kind of hidden indexing or logging. would some one give an advise how to calm down second hdd? is it possible turn off logging on nonsystem disk? All possible settings in disk properties about indexing i`ve switch off/ What can I try else (find out what setting responsible for often waking up of 2nd disk ?

Answer 1

Hello,

Maybe you can try below ways to help avoid second hdd wake up too often:

1.Uninstall 3rd party Drivers

2.Uninstall 3rd party Anti-virus

3.disable related scheduled task in Task Scheduler

4.Check advanced power settings for hdd sleep settings

5.turn off indexing for that drive

Best regards,

Wesley Li