I bought new WD Blue drive and I want to spin it down when not in use for 10 seconds. Previously I used HDDScan 3.3 with Segate drive but it don't work with WD drive. Is there any other way to spindown hdd when not in use after certain time?
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This is achieved by opening Control Panel, then navigating to Power Options > Edit Plan Settings (or click change plan settings next to one of the listed plans). From here, click Change advanced power settings
In the dialog, expand Hard disk, and specify a custom time for the given plan.
Note, the minimum time is 1 minute.
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It's probably the internal power management on the drive's firmware as opposed to windows spinning the drive down. You can control this with the hdparm utility which is native to GNU/Linux but there are windows packages available(I believe, never used them myself). Green/Blue drives usually have very aggressive power saving options, I had EEEPC 1000H which had one of those drives and it was spinning down quite fast. With hdparm, I was able to control this.
Check out these links, the first explains how to use the utility, the second is the windows packages.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/39760/how-can-i-control-hdd-spin-down-time
What is an alternative to Linux utility hdparm on Windows 8?
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows
Steps:
Search power & sleep settings in Cortana, open the settings window.
Click Additional power settings
Click on Change plan settings for the current plan
Click Change advanced power settings
Hard disk > Turn off hard disk after, change it to 0 to disable
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Victoria for Windows allows you to do this.
Select drive > Click Service menu > Acoustic and Power. From there you can use Idle Timer slider.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/victoria_for_windows.html