Eset waking hard disks from sleep

[Nuka 0]

Every once in a while Eset keeps waking up hard disks from sleep (to do a startup scan), is there a way to disable it please?

 

I am using ssd on main os with hard disks set to sleep when no activity.

 

Thanks

[Marcos 3,882]

A startup scan is run only upon the start of the operating system or after an update. Update obviously requires writing to the disk and there's no way how to avoid it.

[Nuka 0]

Thanks for the quick reply, so what you are telling me is that update writes to my idle hard disks as well the os ssd where Eset is installed?

 

I simply want to know if there is an option to disable scanning hard disks after every update that are in idle state.

Edited April 30, 2015 by Nuka

[Marcos 3,882]

I assume you're not referring to the system disk where user profiles and temp. folders are located, right? You can try temporarily disabling startup scan tasks in Scheduler just to see if that helps. Of course, leaving them disabled permanently is not a good idea as you'd effectivily disable an important protection layer.

[SweX 870]

I would first try to only disable the startup scan that runs after each successful VSD update. BUT leave the startup scan that runs shortly after boot enabled.