Question: My secondary hard-drive (platter) sometimes has a lag of 1-5 seconds when it hasn’t been accessed in a while, causing explorer or other software to stutter.
Reading online, I saw the advice that you should change it so the hard drive never turns off using this setting:
Is that relatively safe to do?
Answer: Yes, this is perfectly safe.
The advantage of powering mechanical drives down when not in use is simply to save electricity. ?Mechanical drives typically draw between 5 and 6 watts. ?You can look at your electric bill and see how much your power company is charging you per watt-hour and get an estimate on how much more it will cost you to leave it on. ?It isn’t much.