I’ve excluded Spotlight from indexing the external drive, excluded Time Machine from backing up the other external partitions, there is no sleep timer on the WD drive itself, but Power Nap is enabled. What should I do? Edit: ‘Put hard drives to sleep when possible’ is unchecked in Syst...
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....
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...
External Hard Drive Keeps Going to Sleep Too Fast I jut got a Mac Studio. It's a great computer. But, I've noticed that the external hard drives I have keep going to sleep every 30 seconds or so ... then have to cycle back on. I edit in premier ... and its killing my work ...
Furthermore, these new products have power consumption of 250 μW in sleep mode, which further prolongs the battery runtime. View chapterExplore book Design and Applications Warren H. HuntJr., in Comprehensive Composite Materials, 2000 6.05.2.3.2 Computer hard disk drive An emerging application ...
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✅ 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...
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 ...
Type the command "Y" and hit Enter when it asks you if you want to schedule external hard drive scanning the next time you restart your computer. Restart your computer, and the external hard drive will be scanned and repaired automatically. After that, check if the external hard works prope...
1) My main drive. A 36 TB Raid drive from OWC Thunderbay. Highly recommended 2) My Time Machine backup. Backs up every hour. 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 ...