Greetings everyone. I have a question before deciding on getting AIDA64 Extreme. As it says it reads SMART information from hard drives. First and foremost does it allow disk drives to stay in sleep mode if they’ve reached that status, not spinning them up unnecessarily just to read SMART? Secondly does it have an independent option from the other scans to set it to read SMART information only on set intervals, like ten minutes, when you have set the drives to spin down after nine minutes of idle, allowing the reach the sleep mode in the first place?
I run a large HTPC setup with nearly a dozen mechanical storage hard drives and it’s important for me that unused disks can go to sleep. If the program does not have those options can it be set not to read SMART at all without disabling anything else?