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    Seagate HDD clicking noise and HWinfo

    CrystalDiskInfo won't even go below a 1 minute "auto-refresh" interval (as they call it), but yes, it prevents the drives from spinning down if the auto-refresh interval is shorter than the idle timer, and wakes (spins up) the drives if the interval is longer than the idle timer, or if the info...
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    Seagate HDD clicking noise and HWinfo

    Just wanted to add, you can visualize the heads resetting on these graphs with & without HWiNFO running, with SMART polling at 1000ms intervals. (This implies that performance is impacted as well, but the more important issue is that the heads are resetting IMO.)
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    Seagate HDD clicking noise and HWinfo

    Same use case as OP. Found this after days of troubleshooting disk noise and failure of spinning disks to sleep when otherwise idle. I don't believe this is a firmware bug, as I have 3 drives by 2 different manufacturers, and they all exhibit the same issue when HWiNFO is running (which is all...
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