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

date posted 22nd August 2007 17:52

Hi,
What is the hdd spinning down for, is it when you don't access it
for a long period of time? In that case I take it there are no
settings for the external HDD itself... How about looking at any
properties of the drive itself from my computer?

>>>
>>> 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...