- Oct 28, 2013
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So this external drive is normally connected, there's no special settings or special software connected to it - it's just a normal external drive connected via USB 2.0. It's a Western Digital My Book 3 TB drive, a couple years old.
The freezing happens just when pressing the start button (or using the Win key), and in File Explorer when changing directories on other drives. When I had password activated, I had to wait for it to spin up just to be able to type my password on start-up. The keyboard input was delayed.
When I say freeze, I just mean that the operation I'm trying to do is freezing. When the disk has finished spinning up, the operation will continue.
Anyone know why my external drive is affecting Windows operations like that? Especially the start key is a problem.
I would think that there's some setting where I could just keep the drive alive so it just has to spin-up once every session, but I don't think that such a workaround is good enough. Firstly, it would still be a problem at startup, which is important. Secondly, I like to eliminate the one extra fan when not needed. There's enough noise in my little room already. Thirdly, that would limit the life-span of my drive.
Most of all, though, I'm really curious. I think it's a strange problem, and I would really like to know why it happens. Any clues?
OS: Windows 8.1
The freezing happens just when pressing the start button (or using the Win key), and in File Explorer when changing directories on other drives. When I had password activated, I had to wait for it to spin up just to be able to type my password on start-up. The keyboard input was delayed.
When I say freeze, I just mean that the operation I'm trying to do is freezing. When the disk has finished spinning up, the operation will continue.
Anyone know why my external drive is affecting Windows operations like that? Especially the start key is a problem.
I would think that there's some setting where I could just keep the drive alive so it just has to spin-up once every session, but I don't think that such a workaround is good enough. Firstly, it would still be a problem at startup, which is important. Secondly, I like to eliminate the one extra fan when not needed. There's enough noise in my little room already. Thirdly, that would limit the life-span of my drive.
Most of all, though, I'm really curious. I think it's a strange problem, and I would really like to know why it happens. Any clues?
OS: Windows 8.1
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