I have a Windows 7 PC with a SSD system drive and a HDD. Most of my work is done on just SSD and HDD often went to sleep after a while, which is good. But when I shutdown the PC, it will wake up the HDD and it adds several seconds in delay. Not to mention the wear and tear on the HDD.
I searched on this topic and found a post here:
which suggest that Windows need to flush write cache back to HDD. I am not convinced with the explanation at all. Write cache should have happened before Windows put the disk in sleep mode.
I would think that Windows is either trying to read or write to the HDD during shutdown. I would like to know what it is trying to do and if it is something that I can prevent.
