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

date posted 23rd August 2007 16:29

Well if you are getting really desperate why not just schedule a task to do
a dir on an empty directory every few minutes. Not that I advise it mind you
but it seems a simple way of avoiding the issue until you find a better
solution.


> I have read several times that these external hard drives have built-in
"spin-down" feature regardless of Windows/USB settings.