Suggestions for keeping External hard drives active

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Cah
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Suggestions for keeping External hard drives active

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Windows 7 seems to send usb3 external hard drives to sleep so that when the user wants to access a file it can take 10 seconds or more while the drive wakes up. Any recommendations for how to stop this. Thanks.

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Re: Suggestions for keeping External hard drives active

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Cah wrote:Windows 7 seems to send usb3 external hard drives to sleep so that when the user wants to access a file it can take 10 seconds or more while the drive wakes up. Any recommendations for how to stop this. Thanks.
See if this post/thread helps (even though it is referenced to Windows 8.1)
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Rudi

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