> The most of or customers use SSD. I use SSDs *and* HDDs because they have different applications. You cannot easily get 4TB+ SSDs for cheap, bulk storage. I'm having a hard time understanding your objections. A monitoring program should have the least impact possible in the system being monitored, and this is a clear negative impact that I bothered to triage and point out how to avoid. All that is needed is to check if the device is powered on before loading information using WMI (as that what...

Should the option be disabled by default then? This has a pretty negative effect on PC acoustics, and possibly HDD life (for drives that are spun down most of the time) edit: also, other hardware monitoring programs don't have the same effect. They must be doing something different that Aquasuite is not. To start with, there is no need to fetch SMART information every minute.

After moving my storage devices to a new system using an Aquaero device, I noticed my HDDs would not longer spin down after the expected idle time. Changing the setting to 1 minute in Windows and even offlining the drives made no difference. I resorted to using Procmon to inspect which programs were accessing storage device information directly, and the Aquasuite service showed up. It seems to be reading SMART information every minute when the "Hard Drive" monitoring option is enabled. For now d...