we need to consider that having drive sleep on the disks not in use for a decent period of time reduces noise, increases energy efficiency and reduces wear in situation #1 (eg. daily or weekly backup, or backup and forget (ie. photography). For #2, only 1-2 drives will generally be ...
My other Mac has the option to enable Power Nap and put the hard disks to sleep when possible. Can anyone assist me on getting these options on my M1 Mac Mini? 2 years ago 4280 3 External Hard Drive Keeps Going to Sleep Too Fast I jut got a Mac Studio. It's a great computer....
✅ Lacie hard drive getting very warm after changing sleep settings:I had an issue where my Lacie hard drive kept going to sleep/inactive every 30 seconds or so which was really annoying having to wait ages to load up...
I have an Apple Studio Display with a MacBook Pro hooked up to it and also one external hard drive HDD plugged into a USB C port in the back of the Display. When I put my MacBook Pro to sleep and unplug it from the Studio Display, the HDD fan constantly runs. Why is the Studio...
I really can't remember I've also set my HDDs to never go to sleep last time I installed Windows. So thanks for reminding me, Brink! From a power saving perspective, the default 20 minutes make sense. But it adds extra wear on the drive, if it needs to shutdown and bootup more....
3) a 3rd. drive which backs up using Carbon Copy like you do. Love the program. Set to back up once a week. 4) use Backblaze for cloud backup I also have all my music and movies digitized so the total size of my data is ~20 TB. I sleep much better at night I’m sure there...
Bad sectors on the external hard drive are affecting it. The external hard drive is not formatted properly. The external hard drive is not compatible with your computer, so it is not recognized by your computer. There are virus, ransomware or malware on the external hard drive or the files...
Does the hard drive stop in sleep mode? Yes, it does, and it applies to SSDs and mechanical hard drives. By design, the power plan ensures that when the PC goes into sleep mode, the storage also stops working unless triggered by a wake-up call. Some PC also offers. That said, Wind...
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I don’t think there’s a physical problem with the drive, though. Hibernation cannot be used on a dual-boot system. The hibernate process flags the UEFI BIOS to bypass the normal boot process and instead open the hibernation file and read/load the previous system state. The boot options ...