Do you have HDDs in your system other than your boot SSD? In my case i think it's because the computer has to wait for the hard drives to spin up. But i'm not sure why that wouldnt affect Windows 7....

The problem with this approach is the fact that it does not turn off the drives, hence does not reduce noise and power consumption. Also, like i said, when i turn off/hibernate/standby the PC, the...

That is actually a really solid solution to many of my annoyances, thanks for letting me know this exists. However, i live in Pakistan and shipping from Amazon etc is not possible.

I'll try and...

My desktop has 1 SSD and 4 HDDs, running Windows off the SSD
I want to turn the hard drives off when I'm not using them in order to reduce noise from the PC and power consumption (it does matter to...

Your OS seems to be currently installed in Legacy Mode, that means your drive is probably formatted using a scheme called MBR. For Windows to boot in UEFI mode, it required the drive to be formatted...