Mary, if you have a rotating HHD, you want to sleep the drive to save wear and tear on the physical mechanics.?
SSDs don¡¯t have physical mechanics, so you want to prevent sleep and allow the drive to perform an operation that helps increase the longevity of the drive.?
No matter where the setting is or the verbiage. ?
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On Feb 2, 2024, at 09:43, mary via groups.io <mkheadley80503@...> wrote:
?Hi Randy,
Thanks, as always, for your very useful tips! However, I'm afraid all the changes in language used between the various Mac O/S versions has me stumped as to how to set things to have my hard drive powered when my Mac goes to sleep.
When I go to System Settings >? Battery > Options button, I'm confronted with a dialog box that says "Wake for network access. While sleeping, your Mac can receive incoming network traffic, such as iMessages and other iCloud updates, to keep your applications up to date" and then I have to choose between these 3 options: Only on Power Adapter, Always, and Never. So which would I choose?
Thanks,
Mary
Brent