I have a laptop with a harddrive that spins down so aggressively (after ~10s of inactivity) that it causes performance problems in games and various other apps that have frequent but spread out drive accesses. The spin-up causes a two second pause in whatever app is initiating the disk access.
I've found a half-solution which is to use hdparm for windows to change the drive's spin down timeout. But the problem is if the system reboots or sleeps, that value gets lost, and I have to run hdparm again.
What would be a good solution to make this kind of fix permanent? I run hdparm via batch files right now, but that requires a security prompt click, so it can't really be properly automated. Is there a way to make the equivalent changes to the drive settings with some method other than hdparm?
Specifics:
Windows 8.1
MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 2PE-053
Hard drive in question is an HGST HTS721010A9E630 (Hitachi Travelstar 7k1000)
