Suggestions for keeping External hard drives active
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- 3StarLounger
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Suggestions for keeping External hard drives active
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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- gamma jay
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Re: Suggestions for keeping External hard drives active
See if this post/thread helps (even though it is referenced to Windows 8.1)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.
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Rudi
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Rudi
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