How to stop drive spin up on file delete

[tp4tissue]

Is disabling recycling bin the only way?

[SpAmRaY]

Not sure what your asking. Why wouldn't the disk spin up if your accessing it?

[tp4tissue]

Not sure what your asking. Why wouldn't the disk spin up if your accessing it?

it seems that when recycling bin is active.. it will spin-up all my drives if I'm deleting from ANY of the drives.

Shift delete goes over this.. but I obviously don't want to shift-delete all the time..

[SpAmRaY]

Not sure what your asking. Why wouldn't the disk spin up if your accessing it?

it seems that when recycling bin is active.. it will spin-up all my drives if I'm deleting from ANY of the drives.

Shift delete goes over this.. but I obviously don't want to shift-delete all the time..

Weird....mine don't do that. Maybe it has something to do with system restore, which I turned off.

[tp4tissue]

Not sure what your asking. Why wouldn't the disk spin up if your accessing it?

it seems that when recycling bin is active.. it will spin-up all my drives if I'm deleting from ANY of the drives.

Shift delete goes over this.. but I obviously don't want to shift-delete all the time..

Weird....mine don't do that. Maybe it has something to do with system restore, which I turned off.

aghaaa why everyone computer better behaved than mine..

[damorgue]

Hmm, in the recycle bin settings you can set how much space it should reserve. This is likely distributed over all drives which is why when you delete a file from one drive, it is placed in the recycle bin reserved area distributed across all drives. Just a guess. Perhaps you can set the recycle bin to only reserve space on one drive? This way it will only spin up the drive you are deleting from and the one with reserved recycle bin space.

[tp4tissue]

Hmm, in the recycle bin settings you can set how much space it should reserve. This is likely distributed over all drives which is why when you delete a file from one drive, it is placed in the recycle bin reserved area distributed across all drives. Just a guess. Perhaps you can set the recycle bin to only reserve space on one drive? This way it will only spin up the drive you are deleting from and the one with reserved recycle bin space.

is that how it works?

I thought each drive has their own allocation

[damorgue]

Hmm, in the recycle bin settings you can set how much space it should reserve. This is likely distributed over all drives which is why when you delete a file from one drive, it is placed in the recycle bin reserved area distributed across all drives. Just a guess. Perhaps you can set the recycle bin to only reserve space on one drive? This way it will only spin up the drive you are deleting from and the one with reserved recycle bin space.

is that how it works?

I thought each drive has their own allocation

I am not sure at all, I have no idea how it allocates it but based on what you said that it spins up all the drives, I see no reason other than it having to write to all of them. This seems like the logical conclusion to me.

[rowdy]

Mine does that, Windows 7.  I can hear the second drive spin up when I do all sorts of innocuous things that don't involve it.  The machine kinda freezes for 10 seconds, then continues.  But it does that all the time anyway, not just when spinning a drive up.

[IvanIvanovich]

I always disable power saving on HDD and just set sleep timer earlier. This is also better to do if you have SSD since then it dosen't cut power in the sleep state so garbage collection and internal trim can still run even when PC is sleep. If PC is on I am doing things with it, so I hate waiting for drives to spin up.