dalmaar Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Hello, I got lucky and scored a few Hitachi drives locally last week before the prices spiked to much, these are the first Hitachi drives I have ever owned. I picked up: internal HDS5C3030ALA630 5400rpm green ($109) external USB3 touro pro which has a HDS723030ALA640 7200rpm for $139 (figured I could open the case and take the drive out if I wanted). I was actually not expecting a 7200 rpm, but I can put to good use I am not quite ready to put these into my Unraid server as I am current out of physical space (and ports) and in the middle of upgrading to larger case, etc. So I put the internal in a USB3 case and the external was good to go, and plugged them into my Win7 box. Transfer rates are excellent on both drives, as expected 7200 is faster and hotter. Now the question........finally Both of these drives go to sleep in like 10-15 mins of no activity, and I have not been able to control/adjust this time, it is way to short for everyday use IMHO. I have a few older WD elements (5400 green, probably EADS or something) and they also sleep, but after like 30 mins. I do not remember reading any issues with Hitachi drives sleep issue on these boards in Unraid so I thought it might be a win7 issue. I emailed Hitachi and did get a response. they claim "The drive doesn't have a built in sleep or spin down feature enabled. It is designed to support the Windows settings for power saving". I changed every friggin power setting I could find in win7, even on the USB3 cards and nothing changed. I thought maybe the USB3 card is doing this, so I moved one Hitachi drives off the card and onto a normal USB2 plug. Same thing happens. They have a utility tool that looks like it can control an "idle setting" on the drive but it claims to not with with 3TB drive The last email with Hitachi... "We are still working on updating our tools but the drive shouldn't need to be atlered. It sounds more like there is a a defect in this particular drive and it is going to sleep on its own. Maybe it has some corrupted firmware from the warehouse when it was built. If you just got it, definitely bring it back for a replacement" c'mon, 2 different lines of drive, and both are corrupt? sounds like BS to me....and returning is always a pain. Anybody else have similar experience with these drives in win7? I hope no sleep issues with Unraid. Anybody know how to change this setting, or if such a setting exists. I am looking into a program keep the drive alive by writing some blank file or something but this seems like a total kludge. Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 windoz? I would check your power management settings. you might have your spindown at 15 min. Quote Link to comment
Brucey7 Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 I have a hot swap drive caddy in a Win7 client for non-system secondary disks, I can't find any settings, but it doesn't matter what make drive I put in there, they always sleep after 15 minutes. Quote Link to comment
TODDLT Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 If the power saver settings on Win 7 have drive spin down turned off, then I would guess it's hard coded into that caddy, but that's only a guess. Quote Link to comment
dalmaar Posted November 2, 2011 Author Share Posted November 2, 2011 Thanks all for the replies... I am thinking it is in the controller inside the enclosures also, or win7 is not operating properly (wow there is some shocking news). Of course to use >2tb I need win7. I have a different USB3 card (for one of my other box) I might try just to satisfy myself that I tried all options. When I put these drives in my Unraid server, I should not expect this problem? I will be able to set the spindown time like I can now with my samsungs and WDs? Thanks Quote Link to comment
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