{"id":554,"date":"2018-01-16T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?p=554"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:29:15","slug":"turn-off-hard-disk-idle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The option called Turn off hard disk after is a part of power management options of the current power plan. The user can enable or disable it. Depending of the selected power plan, it can be enabled or disabled out of the box. For example, it is enabled in the Balanced and Power Saver power profiles, and disabled in the Performance power plan.<\/p>\n<p>When enabled, your HDD will be turned off after your PC being idle during the configured period of time. The hard drive engine will be stopped and its disks will not spin. Next time your software access the drive, it will take a few seconds before the drive start spinning and give access to files.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This option doesn\u2019t affect solid state drives (SSD). They have no spinning parts and more power efficient than the classic HDDs.<\/p>\n<h3>Here is How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"w10steps\">\n<ul>\n<li>STEP 1: At first, execute <b><i>control.exe powercfg.cpl,,3<\/i><\/b> from the Run dialog or in a command prompt.<br \/>\nAlternatively, you can open <b>Settings<\/b> and go to <b>System<\/b> &#8211; <b>Power &#038; sleep<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>STEP 2: Then, on the right, click on the link <b>Additional power settings<\/b>.\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/windows-10-power-sleep-additional-power-settings.png\" alt=\"windows-10-power-sleep-additional-power-settings\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 3: The following dialog window will be opened. There, click the <b>&#8220;Change plan settings&#8221;<\/b> link.\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/windows-10-power-change-plan-settings.png\" alt=\"windows-10-power-change-plan-settings\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 4: In the next dialog window, click on <b>Change advanced power settings<\/b>, and in the new window expand the <b>Hard disk<\/b> group and open the <b>Turn off hard disk after<\/b> option.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/windows-10-advanced-power-options.png\" alt=\"windows-10-advanced-power-options\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><br \/>\nSet how many minutes of idle should gone before the drive will be turned off. Set it to never to disable this feature if you want.<br \/>\nThe default value of the option is 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10 - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10 - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-16T17:29:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/windows-10-additional-power-settings.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andrew Wise\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AndrewWise911\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andrew Wise\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/\",\"name\":\"How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10 - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-16T17:29:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-01-16T17:29:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/4494705d8033ced33d2cfbc9c4c4a9f6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/speedup\/turn-off-hard-disk-idle\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How to Turn Off Hard Disk After Idle in Windows 10\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/\",\"name\":\"Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\",\"description\":\"Just another Security News site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/4494705d8033ced33d2cfbc9c4c4a9f6\",\"name\":\"Andrew Wise\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdaec00c9b2be4cafb2b31b08041a779?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdaec00c9b2be4cafb2b31b08041a779?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Andrew Wise\"},\"description\":\"Andrew is just a guy who uses computers every day, and hates if troubles come into his life. 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