External USB Hard Disk Spin down and Spin up continuously
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:03 pm
Hi there, I got a Western Digital My Book Essential (model number WD3200I032) for some years and I use it with lot of computers and many OS. I know it has an internal timer for automatically spin down when no activity and it works good on my Windows 7 desktop pc. It works good with my fit-PC2 (rev. 1.21), until i got Windows 7 on it. But when I install Windows XP on the fit PC the disk spin down after some minutes (like in other condition) but it spin up again even if no access to the disk. So it continue spin down and spin up every ten minutes more or less (and I know it's not good for a hard disk). When I use the disk on my old XP computer no problems with XP. I noticed it spin up sometimes even if the fitPC is turned off (USB obviously connected).
Do you know anything about this issue? Any solution?
Thanks for now
Do you know anything about this issue? Any solution?
Thanks for now