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Hard Drives falling asleep
I”ve been having problems with hard drives falling asleep after a few minutes of inactivity. I’ll be editing with FCP, turn around to talk to the client about the edit for a minute or two and when I go back to edit, the drives are always spun down and take 30-45 seconds for all of them to spin back up and wake up, which kinda gets annoying.
Switching between sequences, where the media in both sequences is on one drive produces the same problem
In my system prefs, under Energy Saver, I’ve got “Put Hard disks to sleep when possible” UN-checked but, obviously, they are still sleeping. Am I missing something here?
Im running 10.4.10 on one machine and 10.5.1 on another, both with the same problem. I’m using a mix of G-Raid drives, regular G-Tech drives and Lacie drives, all FW 800. The internal drives are also experienceing this problem.
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.
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All of your Energy Saver setting should be set to “never,” not just the check box you already discussed.
David Roth Weiss
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Some external FW drives will do this by design, and there’s nothing you can do about it (other than not using external FW drives).
You can set the sleep settings for any drive connected to your motherboard by using Energy Saver settings in System Preferences. This may sometimes help with external drives, too, but not always.
Arnie
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There is a little shareware utility called No Spin that will ping external drives periodically to keep them awake.
All the best,
Tom
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