Re: FN-FORUM: External hard drive - how to stop "spin-down"?

date posted 22nd August 2007 17:26

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:54:00PM -0000, Juraj Seffer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to disable idle feature on my external Seagate hard drive.
> I asked Seagate for help, they don't have any tools/software/firmware
> to fix this. I also tried to Google for something, no luck. Hard drive
> is connected via USB to a laptop.
>
> Does anybody know about software that can access hard drive at regular
> intervals, say ever 3 mins, to prevent hard drive spinning down? It
> really annoys me...

You will prob find something in the power saving menu (or something similar)
for the settings of your OS.

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