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    TZ90 - disabling the second hard drive

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by JamesCC, Aug 10, 2007.

  1. JamesCC

    JamesCC Notebook Guru

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    Could anyone with 32GB SSD + 160GB HDD option try disabling the second hard drive in device manager and see if it actually saves power ?

    Thanks in advance
     
    JamesCC, Aug 10, 2007
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    zerodays Notebook Consultant

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    it will save power, Im sure Vista by defaulty will do so.
    I know it did that in my Desktop machine ! (e.g., when I didnt use my movie HDD, and access it after a few hours, it takes 5-10secs to spin-up, and finally shows a folders, also I actually hear the HDD spinning up from the sleep state)

    But make sure you don't install any usable-programs in it, such as OS-required files, or even page-files, etc.
    only put 'documents' that can independently run. (e.g., movies, photos, etc)
     
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  3. Phil

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    I think Vista or XP will wait quite long before powering it down. to save power it would be nice to do it immediately.

    So the questions is how to do it immediately?
     
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    And did you turn it off directly in the device manager ? Because you can also turn it off in Windows Power options, that will only happen after being idle 3 minutes though.

    I've disabled the drive in my desktop for a few minutes but then when I enabled it again it started immediately, that's why I asked if somebody could check their battery and see if it shows more time after disabling it.


     
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    You can turn it off in windows' device manager manually, however I'm still unsure whether it saves power ..
     
    JamesCC, Aug 10, 2007
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