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billybob360

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Spin Up/down Of Internal Hdd?
« on: December 23, 2010, 04:34:00 AM »
Yes newer hdd's do have this feature. (power save)

Go to the maker of your drive (website) and download the tools specific for the model. Plug it into windows and you can deactivate the feature/s that are not needed via the tools.
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MinerWilly

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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2010, 12:07:00 AM »
QUOTE(billybob360 @ Dec 23 2010, 01:34 PM) View Post

Yes newer hdd's do have this feature. (power save)

Go to the maker of your drive (website) and download the tools specific for the model. Plug it into windows and you can deactivate the feature/s that are not needed via the tools.


Had a look and found nothing! It's a Samsung HD203WI http://www.samsung.c...mp;model_cd=513

What an annoying "feature". Using this drive in the pc would bug the hell out of me!
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billybob360

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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2010, 05:04:00 AM »
Using this drive in the PC would see no effect. The fact that you using it for xbox is the reason you noticing the feature doing its business. The drives were designed specifically for PC not for xbox. The xbox drives do not have this "feature".

Never had a samsung hdd - so cannot offer any further advice. BUT from doing some google searches there seems to be some solutions on how to disable it via the bios. But I will not comment further as I do not have drive myself to test out the solutions.

Most HDD manufacturers have tools to select/deselect certain features - seems samsung may not be one of them. (try searching the drive specific to your country and not via the global site)

Hopefully someone else around here has the same drive and can offer some further opinion/help.

Goodluck!



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MinerWilly

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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2010, 05:16:00 AM »
QUOTE(billybob360 @ Dec 24 2010, 02:04 PM) View Post

Never had a samsung hdd - so cannot offer any further advice. BUT from doing some google searches there seems to be some solutions on how to disable it via the bios. But I will not comment further as I do not have drive myself to test out the solutions.

Most HDD manufacturers have tools to select/deselect certain features - seems samsung may not be one of them. (try searching the drive specific to your country and not via the global site)

Hopefully someone else around here has the same drive and can offer some further opinion/help.

Goodluck!


Okay, thanks for trying to help. There were one utility at Samsungs site to be run from dos but i think it was to test the drive for errors.

QUOTE(billybob360 @ Dec 24 2010, 02:04 PM) View Post

Using this drive in the PC would see no effect. The fact that you using it for xbox is the reason you noticing the feature doing its business. The drives were designed specifically for PC not for xbox. The xbox drives do not have this "feature".


But wouldn't it also spin down in the pc? I meant that it would be really annoying using in the pc since the computer would always freeze for a few seconds every time it had to access the drive after a few minutes of inactivity. In the 360 it isn't as bad because when playing a game it rarely get the few minutes of inactivity to spin down.
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Toddler

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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2010, 02:04:00 PM »
The issue you're running into is indeed controlled by the drive's firmware.  You really don't want to use a drive in the 360 that's going to spin down quickly.  It will really hurt in games like Rock Band, where each new song in a playlist will skip.  Western Digital drives can be configured by running WDIDLE3 from DOS.
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