any apps to keep external hard disks active?

[tommo123]

like this one even? no sleep HD. works a treat but only handles 5 drives and i have more than 5.

i want to stop the drives spinning down basically.

 

[code65536]

like this one even? no sleep HD. works a treat but only handles 5 drives and i have more than 5.

i want to stop the drives spinning down basically.

Why not disable the disk spindown in Windows power management?

Or you could try running multiple instances of the program that you linked to.

 

[debian0001]

You can try running two instances on the program under different accounts and see if that works.

 

[tommo123]

Why not disable the disk spindown in Windows power management?

Or you could try running multiple instances of the program that you linked to.

i've already set power settings to not have the disks sleep, disabled power save etc for usb but it still does it. seems the enclosure has some say in this.

i'll try running another instance of nosleephd/install to another location and see if it lets me run it twice.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I think those green WDC disks are power managed on the disk products themselves. What is insane is when you tell Windows to not automatically read a newly connected disk and it doesn't, but then turns around and delays its Shutdown procedure so it can play 'tag, you're it' with attached drives. Idiotic. If I don't want you to Autoplay why check to see if its there on Shutdown?

 

[code65536]

What is insane is when you tell Windows to not automatically read a newly connected disk and it doesn't, but then turns around and delays its Shutdown procedure so it can play 'tag, you're it' with attached drives. Idiotic.

It happens on sleep, too.

Windows is informing the device, "Hey, you're about to lose power. Flush your buffers, now!" Not doing so would be idiotic.

 

[tommo123]

anyway, running the app twice seems to work. will need to resetup on each reboot i think though.