Ah, the huge difference was that when mine stopped, I was not actively doing things. Only on rare occasions was I in the middle of something and the drive had to spin up. It didn¡¯t shut down in the middle of something.?
Because it is not directly connected, it sometimes spins down, but more like an hour plus of inactivity.?
The OP hasn¡¯t said if he is directly or indirectly connected, or if he changed to a direct connection. ?
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On Mar 27, 2025, at 07:50, todhop <hoplist@...> wrote:
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On Mar 26, 2025, at 3:20?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
So I don¡¯t care that my ¡°external drive¡± starts and stops.
It¡¯s was a huge annoyance for me. On my M1 Mac Studio it causes a noticeable pause in Finder response anytime an action triggers the HDD drives to spin up. 9 times out of ?10, I don¡¯t want data from that drive, but I¡¯m still waiting because the system is waiting for the drive to come online.?It was pretty much the only time I ever had to wait for anything so it was glaringly frustrating.?It happened many, many times per day.?
Important note: ?The ¡°Keep Drives Spinning¡± scripts do NOT keep drives from ¡°sleeping¡± when the system sleeps. If the OS tells the drives to spin down, they do. No power wasted by drives spinning when the system is sleeping.
Some drives and connections are worse than others so experiences vary a lot. I¡¯ve had this system for over two years, but only in recent months did the problem get unbearable. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting and could not find a specific cause or a solution other than this app. Directly attached portable drives don¡¯t do this. It¡¯s mostly cheap, large externals. Hubs make a difference, but none of these factors are easily controlled. I keep multiple drives attached all the time and change drives frequently. I never know when this is going to pop-up but once I tell the app to keep a drive active, it remembers that drive forever.
Cheers,
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Brent