Hard Drives Spinning Up

[Scouse]

OK - got my C: drive on an NVME SSD and some other stuff on another SSD.

My physical drives keep spinning up for no reason. They're set to turn off after one minute of inaction (so they don't spin up for long) but it's bloody annoying - happening a lot.

Windows Indexing is turned off. There's no software installed on there. No swapfiles on them (not that I'd need them at 16Gb RAM). I've opened Resource Monitor and can't see any reads or writes from anything other than the C: drive - so why the hell are they turning on, spinning for a bit, turning off again?

Any ideas?

I might unmount all the mechanical drives when I go away on holiday shortly but I'd like to have an idea what's doing this. Can't find a thing

 

[Deebs]

Are you running any S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic software? File Explorer?

 

[Scouse]

Are you running any S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic software? File Explorer?

That's where my thinking took me - I think it's the intel rapid storage technology driver - looks to be b0rked in Windows 10.

If I uninstall the driver I think the M$ one will get installed automatically by 'doze. Just a bit worried as I've a couple of drives in a RAID group for important docs tho.

Bit of poking about on google does point that way. Good shout tho