My secondary hard drive (Windows is running off of an SSD) started randomly turning itself off and on a few days ago.
I've played with the Windows power settings, the drive is set to never turn off. Changing the number has no effect on the problem
It seems to turn itself off after not being in use for <2 minutes, after which it will either turn itself again on at a random time, or when I access a file. It does not do this if I constantly am reading/writing (eg. playing a game).
I don't know if this is relevant, but a few days ago I ran a Linux ISO off a USB drive, however no data was accessed or written to the disk during this time. The problem seemed to appear the same day I did this, however.
The whole computer including the drive is only 1 year old. As mentioned, this problem does not occur if I'm continously accessing the drive. Is this a sign it is failing?
Drive: Seagate Desktop ST1000DM003
Motherboard: Tampa2