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IT is a USB drive, so it is “powered” whenever my PC is powered and that’s, basically, 24/7.  I haven’t a clue what it means.   I don’t back up that drive and don’t use it much, so it is idle most of the time.

Interesting — I was looking for some more info about head parking and ran across:

i noticed that some hard drive(desktop ) like seagate and toshiba do continuously park their head/heads every x seconds

There’s apprently “auto park mode” that can be tweaked… but I haven’t clue how.

I can probably find a program that’ll mess with APM but I wonder if it is good or bad to turn it off.   I gather that the always-part is a feature for laptops [less battery use] but irrelevant for PCs.   On my NAS there’s a setting for that [6TB raid 1] where it winds down after some period of idleness.

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It does — exactly what I was looking for and never knew it was there.  thanks

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didn’t know about clicking on the avatar.. that’s *perfect*.  THANKS

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I wish there were an easy way to find *your*own* posts.   I sometimes have something to update on an old thread of mine and it’d be great if, as most forums do, there was a “my activitiy” either in the right-menu or accessible from the “my account” menu.   I know that threr **IS* such a page because I sometimes find it when I do a “site=askwoody.com” netsearch but I can never remember the URL

I also wonder what the overall opinion is toward making “notify me of updates” the default?

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But I have left those samsung/dell/intel updates “shown” for months and they never get installed and never go away.   I doubt they’re critical to my system — dell has a pretty good update mechanism of its own.

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I guess I get the message — there’a really nothing I can do about those dumb/unwanted updates and so I might as well hide them to prevent one of the zombies from leaping to life.

I had thought that when update checked for updates it could remove the old/irrelevant ones — even beyond the dell/driver updates, what’s with the perpetual silverlight update?  🙂  So hide them I shall…..   Windows update is a mysterious bit of  machinery

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I’ve gotten it done!!   When I stopped hammering on it and thought a bit, I realized that to _unlock_ the slide should disengage from something inside [if i was trying to like the slide would have to engage with something and if something were bent it’d never go]   SO — I then realized that it must just be jammed, rather than obstructed.   I slide it a little way  and I could see the back end of the slide through a small hole in the back of it.   With a narrow screwdriver I managed to get the slide to slide farther..  and then.. <bang> it was completely disengaged.

So I’m now holding in my hands the 16GB Quantum Bigfoot drive from the thing.  Now to figure out how to open the damn drive.

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Another angle on this is how to check all the built-in tasks.  When you just fire up Task Scheduler you’re looking at the “Task Scheduler Library”.  But if you look below that you find a lot of other tasks.  One I just found is “Agent Activation Runtime”  it is disabled and last run time is 11/30/1999 [!!]  It runs System32\AgentActivationRuntimeStarter.   I suppose I could delete it, since it hasn’t run in twenty years and I don’t see anything going awry /

And if you dive below Microsoft>Windows there are scores of tasks… I just skimmed them and they seem reasonable [and/or mysterious].

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I don’t use OneDrive and I have  “OneDrdive standalone Update:
At 3:00 AM 5/1/1992  repeat every 1.00:00:00
Is that “every day”?

StartCN: at any login.  Some AMD thing

StartDVR: runs RSServCmd

but beyond those, nothing suspicious [win10/pro/20H2]

 

 

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I”ll give it a try, but it ‘feels” like something is not lined up properly rather than just caught by friction… but wd-40 here I go 🙂

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There’s no “key” — there’s a tiny sliding “tab” on the top left of the rear of the case that in the “locked” position aligns with a hole and when in the locked position you can _really_ lock it by putting a padlock through the tab.   I have no idea why I kept it locked, but I never put an *actual* lock on it – I just slid the tab to the locked position … and now I can’t slide it back so I can’t get the case open.   It is just jammed.

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Hmph.  I guess I don’t see the point of junctions.  I’ve read the description before and I read the computerhope article.   I still don’t see the point of junctions.   From what I can tell directory symlink can do everything, and more, that junctions do.  Am I missing something.

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One thing I”ve never quite understood:   what’s the difference between a directory symlink {mklink /d} and a directory junction  [mklink /j]

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Right you are.   there are a *LOT* of processes hammering on the disk, none of which show up on the Processes tab.  All system processes with no real indication of what they’re doing [but they certainly read a LOT of disk, but don’t write very much].   I still don’t know what they’re trying to do, but I didn’t realize how many processes “hide” from the Process tab on task manager!  Thanks

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As has been pointed out, Raid 0 is pretty useless.a  But for me, Raid-1 is a winner.   I have a 6Tb ReadyNAS .  I’m only running 4TB, but I have 8Tb of disks mounted in raid 1.   *every*one* of the original [seagate!] drives failed over the next few years.  I replaced them with  Western digital and haven’t had a single failure but that’s not my point:

The ReadyNAS sent me an email about the disk failure.   I pulled the disk out of the running NAS, mounted the WD drive, stuck it back in [and it took about 20+ hrs to get the new drive fullly indexed into the mess.   for me, Raid 1 and hot-swappable drivers is a winner.

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