How to stop ering between SSD and HDD

Good day friends, i have question :

I got ACER V3-772G
year ago i bought SSD, but only with 60GB, so it mainly for windows and apps.

Games was installed directly on second simple HDD 5400 rpms

And now i have problem , when i play games, like playing normaly, that it freezes for 1-2 sec, and continues. I believe it some sort of caching in various games, like freeze comes, and i hear sound HDD starts spinning,

Is there any setting, i can make HDD spining all time ?

 

You can try to disable the sleep of hdd in power plan in windows, although this will not prevent the hdd to park the head...

 

This is what I'd suggest too. I don't think OP's issue has to do with head parking since he says he hears his drive spinning up.

 

Pretty sure part of it has to do with the fact that it's a 5400 RPM drive and not a traditional 7200 RPM drive. There's a fairly large difference between those two in terms on in-game performance. It's moderately evident when you have a good CPU and a halfway decent GPU.

 

The easiest way is to try Performance mode in the Power Options in Control Panel.

If the issue continues, see if you can download a utility from the HDD manufacturer to control the head parking issue.

Or, try this if your drive is a WD:

See:
Newer Western Digital HDD Head Parking and You! - Hard Disk Drives (HDD) - Storage Forums

 

But i dont understand, why for example if i play BF4 4 hours, from HDD and no spikes of freezes, but when im playing Fallout 3, or Aion it comes every 8- 10 min freezes 1-2 secs.

 

Because different games load data from the hard drive at different rates/times?


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That mostly has to do with how the code in the game decides to load/save data from the drive, as alexhawker mentions.

 

You say these are games like fallout 3 and aion. These games are open world and should be constantly streaming data in as you move around. Unless you are sitting in one spot and doing very little for, as you say, 8-10 minutes, your hard drive would not be going to sleep. Now then, if you actually have some ludicrous sleep timer on your hard drive like 30 seconds - 1 minute, you could find it falling asleep in a lull of activity. However this is no where near default and you would have had to set this manually beforehand. However pausing for 1-2 seconds with a hard drive spinnup describes the case perfectly.

If it is NOT your hard drive going to sleep then it is much worse. A bad connection will cause the game to freeze while the OS re-request the data from the HD. If the hard drive is starting to die in a bad way then the drive may actually reset itself, powering down and respinning the drive back up. Although this process usually takes longer then 2 seconds.