I'm not quite sure what the hell is going on here. I've been running 7 for a few months but I'm not using my machine for much of anything these days. I have 2 disks, the second one being my "media" disk. Both attached SATA. I noticed after I put 7 on that I'd go to browse folders on this second disk and it would pause for about 3 seconds and I'd hear the disk spinning up. It's mildly annoying but since I don't use it much these days I'm not caring too much.

Well today, I decided I'd fire mozy back up and get my nightly backups going again. Mozy supposedly will resolve all the files I'm attempting to back up with all the ones I had previously backed up even with a slightly different directory structure from before.

However, it's been running for probably 3 hrs now and it's just sitting at Total Encoding 0.6%. This might be normal. I'm guessing that it is perhaps computing a checksum of each file and then comparing it to what I've uploaded before and maybe their engine to do this is shit and it just takes forever.

Regardless, the disk spins up and down about every minute and I'm wondering if this might be some sort of bottleneck.

2/20/2010 4:01:48 PM

winkey -> search power settings -> "change power saving settings" -> change plan settings on the right -> change advanced power settings > expand hard disk -> turn hard disk off after never

Could be the problem, not sure.

2/20/2010 4:43:14 PM

power save on the HDDs is kinda nice b/c it saves on heat and power. I would try increasing the timeout before disks are put to sleep before turning it off entirely.

2/20/2010 5:03:10 PM

I tried turning off all the power save features. I didn't have this sort of wonkiness with XP.

I'm kinda wondering if it might be the vid card fan. It doesn't sound like a fan, it sounds like an HDD.

2/20/2010 5:09:48 PM

It's very likely the indexing service that is spinnig your drive up. There's nothing bad about it other than the sound. I would just live and let live.

2/20/2010 5:23:43 PM

even if it is, that's only about 1 of 3 of his issues

2/20/2010 6:26:26 PM

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"power save on the HDDs is kinda nice b/c it saves on heat and power"

Do you realize hard drives use maybe 5 watts max under load? Just idling, they hardly use any power (1 to 3 watts). Unless you have a whole bunch of hard drives, it really doesn't make a difference.

2/21/2010 1:28:39 AM

just looked my drive up, 10.8w active, 8.3w idle.

2/21/2010 8:04:20 AM

Set your system to sleep or hibernate after its inactive for a period of time (say 1 hour), and you aren't actively downloading anything. Somebody prove me wrong, but I've never seen a case for a home computer where power saving options on the hard drives was a good thing.

2/21/2010 1:03:05 PM

Ok Im not arguing the powersavings bit, but there is another reason you turn them off,

you turn them off spinning, which saves wear on the motor, and sometimes the heads.

2/21/2010 6:07:23 PM