Keep External USB drive running

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Lifer
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How would I do this please ?

At times it takes 30 seconds to a minute for it to start back up when using it. I want to prevent this please if possible.
 

Elixer

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You can try crystaldiskinfo, and then select advanced feature, in Function menu, then APM control, then select the drive you want, and either disable APM, or set it to performance.

Some firmware ignores that, and in that case you need to write to the drive every X secs to prevent that. A simple cron job that fires ever X secs would work.
 

corkyg

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It may also help if you connect it through a powered hub.
 

tommo123

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i run nosleepHD v2 on all my drives to keep them from spinning down (usb ones i mean). no settings to stop it happening since (afaik) it's down to the enclosure.
 

EXCellR8

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only thing i got to work was the KeepAwake.exe which, afaik, was written in Python. i had a 2TB external that would just power down after a couple of minutes no matter what but KA just writes a small .txt file to the drive every XX seconds...

put it on 90 seconds and haven't had to look back since