Question Disabling Mechanical HDD while booting

[cottoneyesergo]

Hello everyone, I tried looking it up here and on google but couldn't find any definıtive answers, if there is, please direct me so. I don't want to repost the same question.

I have three types of storages in my case. A mechanical 2 TB hdd which I only use for archive purposes and removed from my old system and haven't had the heart to throw it away, a 500 GB ssd which I just freed up, completely empty, and lastly I recently got a new 500 GB M.2 ssd which I have my OS and a few games on.

My problem is,

When I boot my computer, I hear my old hdd like waking up, it makes its mechanical click noises like it does normally, and then I see my pc booting. Is there any way to disable it from waking up first so my windows boots a bit faster? Ignoring it until windows boots up? I disabled it from going to sleep in windows power options because it does the same thing when it was idle and freezes the pc for 2 3 seconds while waking up.

I fiddled around in bios options and couldn't find any options for it. By the way my primary booting device is M.2

I hope I can made my problem clear for you all. Thank you in advance.

 

[thx1138v2]

All SATA disks are hot swappable, meaning you can unplug them and plug them back in at any time. So you might consider getting a tray and plug it in when you want to use it and unplug it when not in use. You'll need about $25.00 and a 5 1/4" opening on the front of you case to use one.

Something like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ez+...g&ei=KYh8ZdfBH77Np84P3vOEsAE&bih=919&biw=1920

 

[cottoneyesergo]

All SATA disks are hot swappable, meaning you can unplug them and plug them back in at any time. So you might consider getting a tray and plug it in when you want to use it and unplug it when not in use. You'll need about $25.00 and a 5 1/4" opening on the front of you case to use one.

Something like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ez+...g&ei=KYh8ZdfBH77Np84P3vOEsAE&bih=919&biw=1920

Wow I had no idea you can do that! Well that was easy I'm sure I can stick that tray in somewhere. Thank you for your help sir. Very much appreciated.

 

[CountMike]

There's another way, you can just switch HDD's power off when not needed.
https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/4000...3537845042e6fa0!10000001188822783!rec!SRB!!AB

 

[punkncat]

Just going to quickly mention something here....

If you are going to tray mount the HDD you increase the opportunity for it getting pulled too far out, getting pulled while running and other such pitfalls that could cause failure of the drive. The idea of the part that @CountMike offered is a far safer alternative IMO.

 

[SkyNetRising]

All SATA disks are hot swappable, meaning you can unplug them and plug them back in at any time.

SATA disks are not automatically hot-swapable.
Specific setting has to be enabled in BIOS (hot plug for specific sata port, where drive is connected).
By default this setting is disabled.

And even with hot plug setting enabled, you have to perform safe removal first, before you can physically disconnect it.
Or else file system corruption can occur.

 

[cottoneyesergo]

Okay I take that back that was not that easy lol. I'll keep every bit of advice you gave me in my mind and deal with it the best I can. You guys are so helpful thank you all a lot.