Shutting off a 2nd hard drive

[tgk2044]

So I just installed a 2nd hard drive into my computer for backup reasons, the only problem is, its rather loud. I was just wondering if there's any way to just shut that hard drive only off, I didn't see anything in the power management settings about shutting only one off, so I'm confused what to do.

 

[2poor]

I had the same problem with a loud harddrive and I just stuffed some foam between the side panels. The only way I know is to just unplug the harddrive.

 

[Photomotoz]

Yeah I have never heard of shutting of components any other way then just simply disconnecting them.

 

[CokeCola]

What happens if you go into the device manager and disable it? No, I'm not trying it on my computer.

But I think the drive would be spun up by the motherboard, so maybe you can look for a bios setting to turn it off.

 

[oxidative]

The drive is spun up by power. Disconnect the power plug from the drive. You should be able to leave the IDE cable plugged in.