Program to keep my external hard drive from sleeping

[DougoMan]

Any ideas? I hate having to wait 5-10 seconds for it to come to life every time I want to access a file.

 

[stlcardinals]

You can look in the advanced Power Options, although those do not work sometimes i.e.: unchecking the allow the computer to power this device off option.

You'll probably want to look at whatever software came with your hard drive from the manufacturer, they sometimes have options in there for this.

 

[jkauff]

I have six WD My Book drives. The newest one came with a utility to set power savings to "Never". Unfortunately, the utility does not work with my previous gen drives.

 

[DougoMan]

Yeah Windows setting doesn't work, and they are Hitachi drives. One idea I had was to connect a bit torrent client that drive and share a file to keep the drive active. Not my preferred solution though.

 

[BlueWeasel]

NoSleepHD

 

[Auric]

HGST used to offer a Feature Tool for internal drives. But various third-party proggies including CrystalDiskInfo should be able to set the drive's APM to disable standby (as well as set AAM).

 

[C1]

http://softjock.com/mdis.htm

 

[sm625]

You could just create a scheduled task runs every 5 minutes and simply calls and exits powershell, outputting to a log file on your drive:

powershell.exe exit > E:\test.log

(Change E: to whatever your drive letter is)

What this does exactly is open powershell, open and clear the file "test.log", then exit powershell and close the log file. It cant possibly be any simpler. The log file will be zero bytes.

 

[Ketchup]

How often are you accessing this drive DougoMan?

If you are accessing this thing all the time from one machine, an internal drive may be a better solution.

 

[smitbret]

Vote #2 for NoSleepHD