External hard drive spins up every couple minutes

Discus and support External hard drive spins up every couple minutes in XboX Insiders to solve the problem; I have a western digital 8tb external hard drive hooked up to my series X and I can hear it turn on every few minutes. I have the option "When Xbox is... Discussion in 'XboX Insiders' started by /u/FIeury, Sep 19, 2021.

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    External hard drive spins up every couple minutes


    I have a western digital 8tb external hard drive hooked up to my series X and I can hear it turn on every few minutes. I have the option "When Xbox is off, Turn off storage" option enabled and it still spins up constantly. The only way to get it to stop is to turn off the "instant on" mode. I've tried a Samsung drive and it did the same thing. I've had this issue since the series x came out. Alpha build or not. I've also tried turning auto updates off. Still spins up. Hoping this gets fixed one day. I've read other people have the same issue.

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  2. zzIRISMAXIMUSzz Win User

    XBOX One external hard drive keeps spinning up and down every minute

    It might be worth looking into a USB port splitter. I use Sabrent 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub with Individual Power Switches. It allows you to shut off and turn on whatever you have plugged in. I use two external
    hard drives with this.
  3. RAXXIC Win User

    XBOX One external hard drive keeps spinning up and down every minute

    Hi Andy5416,

    It seems like you have a strange one there.

    I have had a similar problem with my old Seagate HDD to which I had found out that it was due to a faulty USB head. I understand you have already tried another HDD but may I ask did you change the cables for testing?

    Regards

    Rax
  4. Andy5416 Win User

    XBOX One external hard drive keeps spinning up and down every minute

    Attempted to turn off the option to power down drive so that it would be always on, but even then it spins down and up again every minute. So it seems no matter what setting it's on, it will not

    1. keep drive powered on when in standby

    or

    2. keep drive powered off when in standby

    So if it's doing a status check every 60 seconds, is it the drive that is spinning up on its own, or is it the XBOX OS that is spinning it up I wonder?

    I have another drive which I have plugged in and tried this on, it is a Hitachi Touro 1tb (usb powered hdd) and it also spins up every 60 seconds. I plugged the hitachi into another XBOX one S and noticed it exhibited the identical behaviour... Spinning
    up and down every 60 seconds.

    So that's two drives on two Xbox One's. I'm very puzzled. Thoughts?
  5. Alucario Ultra Win User

    XBOX One external hard drive keeps spinning up and down every minute

    Try to hard reset the console, one never knows.
  6. EXES5 Win User

    XBOX One external hard drive keeps spinning up and down every minute

    Its just keepin it alive and not alowing it to sleep.if it goes to sleep whatever needs access to your external just stutters til the hard is back on or even freezes.
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