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  • Problem External HD OSX

    Posted by Tielman Dewaele on December 9, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    Hey,

    Maby someone overhere can answer this question:

    I got an external disk(an Iomega EHD), who i use for editing(sometimes). This are the best Disk i ever had so far, but it gets pauses, whenever im not using it for 10 minutes.
    And its takes 10 s then to work again good. Working all day behind the computers, it gets a little bit frustrating after a while.
    It does it only on my computer, on others it works fine.
    Does anybody how to fix this problem.

    T.

    MacPRo intel quad core 2 G RAM
    Iomega disks
    AE CS3, PSD CS3, AI CS3
    FCP 6.0 studio
    C4d R10

    Chris Mackenzie replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Chris Mackenzie

    January 8, 2008 at 2:28 am

    My guess is that you have Energy saver set to spin down disks when not in use.

    Apple Menu -> System Preference -> Energy Saver -> Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible

    Try turn that off and see if it helps. It is a system preference so the issue would not follow the drive if that is the case.

    Aloha,

    -Chris

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