After installing an mSATA SSD (which became Disk 0) alongside the existing SATA HDD (which became Disk 1) and clean installing Windows 10 I am experiencing a really annoying issue.
The 2nd HDD being 1TB vs the 120GB SSD I installed, is where I will be keeping all my games etc. I hear the HDD spin down after just a few seconds, and everytime I need to get something off of it, have to wait a moment for it to spin up before I can open files or folders. This wouldn't be a huge deal, but even in the middle of games, if they are not accessing the drive constantly, it falls asleep, and when they do need to pull in some more data, the game ends up griding to a halt waiting on the drive to spin up so it can load the next section. This is absolutely game breaking!
I have set the hard drive to never turn off in advanced power management, but it seems this only affects the system disk. When I boot into Windows 8, it works perfectly without ever powering down, I'm guessing since it's the system disk. I also tried turning off the USB suspend stuff, just on the off chance. It seems completely independent of the power settings, after all, even if it were set to turn off after 10 minutes, it'd never be an issue whilst gaming. It's shutting off after just seconds of having been used. I can open up my pictures, and if I want to look at more than 1, I have to be pretty fast to move to the next one otherwise it's gone beddybyes again.
How do I stop it powering down without using a ridiculous tool to constantly write a blank file to it?