NTFS spin down?

[gr4z]

Hi

I am have put a NTFS formatted drive into my MBP optical bay using a caddy and have a SSD as my boot drive and OSX partition. I want to continue using NTFS as I have a bootcamp partition for work.

I have noticed the NTFS drive never spins down even though I have selected the option in energy preferences. I only want it to spin up when its needed. Is there any way to get to this to work? Or do I need reformat the drive with HFS+?

Many thanks
gr4z

 

[Gav2k]

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It's nothing to do with it being formatted for ntfs

 

[gr4z]

Can anyone suggest why it doesn't spin down? Thanks

 

[MisterMe]

Can anyone suggest why it doesn't spin down? Thanks

I would suspect that you don't have it connected correctly.

 

[gr4z]

Its in a disk caddy replacing the optical drive. I am not sure how else I could of connected it...

 

[miker2209]

Make sure that your machine isn't using any file on it.

 

[gr4z]

As its a NTFS disk I haven't put anything on it. Reading around on other threads this seems a very common problem with disk caddy HDDs. I guess the only other solution would be to swap the SSD and HDD around?

 

[zorinlynx]

If you eject the drive in Disk Utility, it should spin down and stay spun down for the rest of your session. I think it wakes up when you sleep and wake the computer, but should spin down again fairly quick.

That's the behavior I get on my desktops macs, YMMV.