I replaced my main laptop hard drive with a 240GB SSD. Ordered one of the faux optical drives that allow you store a second hard drive where your CD-ROM use to be. I'm able to access both drives successfully, my only problem - the battery life is literally about a 1/2 or a 1/3 of what it use to be before this new hard drive arrangement.
I'd read forum posts about the old Ubuntu bug where it can continuously cycle your drives. I am not accessing this drive. Not reading or indexing the data on it. It is my Windows 7 NTFS drive that came with the system. I was going to format it and use it as additional storage but now I'm debating just putting my optical drive back in.
I could understand if the battery life diminished slightly but if I'm not actually moving or using the drive AT ALL. Why does it affect life so much? Is there a way to correct it or possibly leave it completely unmounted unless otherwise needed? Thank you in advance.