Noisy hard drives

Hello :) I have 2 hard drives. One of them is very noisy when powered on. I can feel my desk vibrating when its reading. (I think its dying) Its around 6 years old, so Im expecting it to stop working soon. My other drive is also abit noisy but not as bad as the first one. (The other drive is 3 years old) But anyway, is it any way to manually turn off hard drives without unplugging them? Power saving helps, but they always seem to turn on again after a while. It it any software on the internet that can put hard drives into a power saving mode that it cant wake up from unless I want it to?

I would replace them while you can still access the data. I don't know if you do this or not but if not I suggest keeping backups on a external drive for extra safety. :)

Winuser said:

I would replace them while you can still access the data. I don't know if you do this or not but if not I suggest keeping backups on a external drive for extra safety. :)

I have a backup just in case :) But I was hoping to avoid a replacement, but it seems like it is the smartest thing to do now before corrupted files comes. Thanks for the answer!