How to have your hard disks to be either turned off after however many minutes you set of being idle, or to never be turned off in Windows 7 and Vista. This setting will only affect internal HDDs and not SSDs (solid state drives). When set to turn off hard disks after idle, you will notice a brief delay of few seconds when you try to access a turned off hard disk as it spins back up and is turned back on automatically as needed.Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle / Never
How to have your hard disks to be either turned off after however many minutes you set of being idle, or to never be turned off in Windows 7 and Vista. This setting will only affect internal HDDs and not SSDs (solid state drives). When set to turn off hard disks after idle, you will notice a brief delay of few seconds when you try to access a turned off hard disk as it spins back up and is turned back on automatically as needed.