I posted on the first page of this thread regarding this issue on my old p67 platform PC. I recently built a new PC on the z170 platform with Windows 10 and I am experiencing the same issue as with Windows 8.1.
I started the Windows 10 install with the 14.5 F6 driver and experienced this issue. I rolled back to the default Windows 10 AHCI driver, then switched to the 14.6 beta driver. All three of them make my hard drive power down after a few minutes and chirp each time I access it. I read earlier in a post that someone using the default Windows 10 driver did not notice this issue. Can anyone confirm? I'm wondering if the driver is enabling some feature that is not disabled by rolling back to old drivers?
Since I'm using the hard drive as a redirected desktop/documents drive, I access it constantly. Head parking goes up the hundreds every day and the constant chirping is very annoying. There's also a few second lag each time it happens so I have to keep waiting to open my documents.
I have two hard drives. One is affected by this and the other is not. The Toshiba DT01ACA300 is affected but my Toshiba MD04ACA500 is not affected by this. Both are in the Intel RST controller.
In the mean time I am using Crystal Disk Info to disable APM on both drives but this is not a permanent solution. On my old P67 system using the 12.9 drivers solved the problem.
Please fix this. It didn't happen with old drivers so you must of changed something, somewhere.
