Windows Power Management Question

[NBninja8]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I can't find anything that will work. I recently bought a new laptop and will be doing a lot of video editing on it. My only question is: is there any way to have the power settings turn off the hard disks after 15 mins but not while rendering video or burning a DVD?

Thanks

[classfour]

Not that I know of. Unless the machine sees human activity, it will likely go into a power saving state. You could set up different profiles: One for power saving, one for video rendering; and switch between them.

[TJohns]

I'm pretty sure the disk timeouts are dependant on disk activity, not general machine usage. I hear the drives I store videos on spin down while I'm web browsing (off the OS drive).

[poisondeathray]

Control Panel => Power Options

You should have settings for monitor, HD, system standy, hibernate

If it's a laptop you can change the "power scheme" to "laptop" and it will give you other options

Note: turning on/off your HD repeatedly is known to reduce the life expectancy. It's the same as any mechanical device like engines etc...

[NBninja8]

Thanks everyone

Control Panel => Power Options

Note: turning on/off your HD repeatedly is known to reduce the life expectancy. It's the same as any mechanical device like engines etc...

Does that go for external Hard disks as well?

[edDV]

Are you rendering off batteries?

You can set different profiles for AC power vs. batteries.