SSD going to sleep all the time

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Heisann999

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I have an SSD that I exclusively use for sound libraries. When working with music, every now and then the hard drive goes to sleep, and many times when I hit play in the software, I have to wait for the hard drive to wake up, before the music plays. How can I prevent this?

I have found some help/suggestions via Google, and I have tried the following, but it is not getting any better. The problem is still there.

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- https://www.prajwaldesai.com/prevent-hard-disk-from-going-to-sleep-windows/

I hope someone can help me solve this! :)
 
Let's check a few things.
In Control Panel, go to Power Options.
Whatever plan you are on, click the Change plan settings link, then click Change advanced power settings.
In the Hard Disk section, change all values to 0.
In the Sleep section, change Sleep After to 0.
Turn off hibernation by starting an elevated command prompt and type in powercfg -h off

Another thing to test, in BIOS, whatever SATA port the SSD in connected to, check that port in BIOS isn't set to something strange like 'sleep after x minutes' or something like that.
 
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Bruce said:
Let's check a few things.
In Control Panel, go to Power Options.
Whatever plan you are on, click the Change plan settings link, then click Change advanced power settings.
In the Hard Disk section, change all values to 0.
In the Sleep section, change Sleep After to 0.
Turn off hibernation by starting an elevated command prompt and type in powercfg -h off

Another thing to test, in BIOS, whatever SATA port the SSD in connected to, check that port in BIOS isn't set to something strange like 'sleep after x minutes' or something like that.
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I had already set Sleep section to 0.
I have now tried powercfg -h off.
None of these makes any difference. The problem is still there.
When it comes to BIOS, the SATA section does not have any 'sleep after x minutes' option.
 
Heisann999 said:
I have now tried powercfg -h off.
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Did you reboot after this?

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Is there anything in the Asus Armory Crate or the bundled Asus software that manipulates the drives?

Also, open an elevated command prompt.

Hit start, type cmd, then CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
An elevated prompt should open.
In this prompt type powercfg /sleepstudy and hit enter.

It will save a file with path shown in the prompt. Upload this file in your next post, please.
 
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Armoury Crate is not installed on my PC. Do I need that?
I don't know if anything in the Asus software manipulates the drives. How can I check that? I have never been into that software.
 
Code: 
AcPowerNotification.exe
Process ID:
4492
User:
Rune_H
Domain:
Kontor2
Path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ArmouryDevice\dll\AcPowerNotification\AcPowerNotification.exe
Memory Usage:
28 MB
Peak Memory Usage:
43 MB

Code: 
ArmouryCrate.Service.exe
Process ID:
4588
User:
SYSTEM
Domain:
NT-MYNDIGHET
Path:
C:\Program Files\ASUS\ARMOURY CRATE Lite Service\ArmouryCrate.Service.exe
Memory Usage:
33 MB
Peak Memory Usage:
1.02 GB

From Speccy. No, you do not need it.
 
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