HDD always in sleep mode

[kazokizo]

Hi.

I am planning to put into my PC one SSD for Windows and apps, and one HDD for archived document. The archived documents would be accessed maybe once to twice per week, so I does not make sense that the HDD is nonstop running. It makes higher temperatures in small case, consumes electricity and makes noise.
Is it possible to put only HDD in sleep mode? And when you try to access it under "My computer" then it automatically turns on.

BR,
Kazo

 

[camieabz]

In power settings, go to advanced power settings, expand the Hard Disk option, and set the HDD to turn off after a certain time period. This is applied to all HDDs, and presumably SSDs, so set to a large enough value to not interfere with normal operation. Mine is set to 20 minutes.

Edit: Also remove indexing from said drive, or indexing service will access it without your say so. If you must have indexing, you'll have drive activity.

 

[CountMike]

Not with Windows.

 

[kazokizo]

So, the answer is no? Under Windows (10) there is no possibility to put only one drive to sleep?

 

[CountMike]

No, not only particular drive, those settings are for all drives. Windows use disk drives all the time while running so it would just wake up very often without regard which disk is accessed. You might be better of using an external enclosure with own power saving mode or switch.
Or you could use something like one of these: https://www.ebay.com/bhp/hard-drive-switch to do it manually.