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    Question Hard drive spinning down over and over ?

    I have a WD Blue hard drive and it's always sounded a bit squeaky when it spins down. But starting last night, it started doing it about once per minute. I'm pretty sure that's not good for it and also it sounds annoying. I tried running a test with seatools just in case but it didn't say...
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    [SOLVED] How do you manually spin down a hard drive?

    I have an extra 4TB WD Black Caviar Hard Drive that I now use for cold storage. I store old gaming videos and extra games that I do not normally play so I don't have to redownload the game later on if I want to play it. I have a 500 GB M.2 drive to run the games off of and do not play games...