Steam spins up my drive

Ramonoo · 04-29-2012, 05:39 AM

I have a secondary hdd which is set to spin down after like 10 min. Most of the times it stays down, but whenever launching steam it starts to spin.

This hard drive only contains a few movies as .avi; no swap no system files, no nothing. Why is steam touching this hard drive?

Is it just me?

-Ramon

MasterEvilAce · 04-29-2012, 06:30 AM

I created a thread about this two years ago. No real official, answer, really. It's a real pain since I have 6 HDs, and have to wait for each one to spin up individually. I pretty much just leave steam open constantly, these days.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1246916

TheDaFox · 04-29-2012, 06:38 AM

Yep it's been a long standing issue.

GDL · 04-29-2012, 06:40 AM

Happy to hear it's not just me with this issue.

Satoru · 04-29-2012, 07:01 AM

Is this just when launching steam? My drives spin down fine.

Ramonoo · 04-29-2012, 07:30 AM

It spins down fine when steam is running, but whenever launching steam it spins up and stays like that untill the timer runs out again.

This is mostly a problem for the people that dont want steam running in the background when not playing any games.

04-29-2012, 05:39 AM	#1
Ramonoo Join Date: Jun 2010 Reputation: 287 Posts: 8	Steam spins up my drive I have a secondary hdd which is set to spin down after like 10 min. Most of the times it stays down, but whenever launching steam it starts to spin. This hard drive only contains a few movies as .avi; no swap no system files, no nothing. Why is steam touching this hard drive? Is it just me? -Ramon

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04-29-2012, 06:30 AM	#2
MasterEvilAce Join Date: Jul 2003 Reputation: 34 Posts: 444	I created a thread about this two years ago. No real official, answer, really. It's a real pain since I have 6 HDs, and have to wait for each one to spin up individually. I pretty much just leave steam open constantly, these days. http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1246916

04-29-2012, 06:38 AM	#3
TheDaFox Join Date: Jun 2008 Reputation: 17 Posts: 409	Yep it's been a long standing issue.

04-29-2012, 06:40 AM	#4
GDL Join Date: Mar 2012 Reputation: 1004 Posts: 2,176	Happy to hear it's not just me with this issue.

04-29-2012, 07:01 AM	#5
Satoru Join Date: Jul 2008 Reputation: 3146 Posts: 9,084	Is this just when launching steam? My drives spin down fine.

04-29-2012, 07:30 AM	#6
Ramonoo Join Date: Jun 2010 Reputation: 287 Posts: 8	It spins down fine when steam is running, but whenever launching steam it spins up and stays like that untill the timer runs out again. This is mostly a problem for the people that dont want steam running in the background when not playing any games.