Question Secondary HDD Loads when I open a file located in Primary SSD

[dominic.bogdan]

Hello guys,

I have an ADATA SP900 SSD located in C: and a WD BLUE 500GB located in D: and every time I open any software located in C: I hear noise from the secondary HDD, I open task manager and I see disk D: loading, I noticed this issue when browsing Google Chrome with multiple tabs and I did not pay attention until now.

I don't have any other app like uttorent to use D: disk, I use it only for storage.

I removed the secondary HDD and now PC loads even faster because it loads only on SSD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[karenjoly]

Were both drives attached when you installed windows to the ssd ?

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

Is your bios setting for storage in ahci or raid mode ?

 

[dominic.bogdan]

Thank you guys for responding in such a short time!

Were both drives attached when you installed windows to the ssd ?

Yes. Both drives were attached when I installed windows to ssd.

Is your bios setting for storage in ahci or raid mode ?

AHCI

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

Sounds like it is write caching as you browse etc. Check your write caching policy on ssd and hd.

 

[dominic.bogdan]

Sounds like it is write caching as you browse etc. Check your write caching policy on ssd and hd.

Never had this problem before, I remember hearing the HDD (D) turning itself off for not using it, and each time I entered (D) drive the HDD powered again.

 

[dominic.bogdan]

Thank you guys for helping me out.

The problem has been solved by itself. Like I said I removed the secondary HDD to see how PC behaves, after I pluged the HDD again it does not load anymore like it used to.

PC loads fast again, I feel happy