External Hard Drive Problem

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External Hard Drive Problem

wfn217 (Chemical)

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6 Oct 11 14:49

I have a Western Digital external hard drive that exits the sleep mode for no apparent reason when nobody is using the computer. What can cause this?

MacGyverS2000 (Electrical) · Answer 1 · 2011-10-07 07:14:10

Plenty of things... network traffic, OS decides it needs to empty the fast cache, some background process wants to install an update, etc.

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loki3000 (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2011-11-03 03:09:48

RE: External Hard Drive Problem

loki3000 (Mechanical) 3 Nov 11 03:09

windows power usage settings.

MacGyverS2000 (Electrical) · Answer 3 · 2011-11-03 07:31:13

Quote (loki3000):
windows power usage settings.

That would put a drive to sleep, not wake it up...

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genomon (Computer) · Answer 4 · 2011-11-10 16:18:40

If you installed the Smartware that comes with the drive, it does things in the background when your system is idle.

wfn217 (Chemical) · Answer 5 · 2011-11-10 17:19:02

genomon,

Will the external hard drive go into the sleep mode if the Smartware is not installed?

wfn633

genomon (Computer) · Answer 6 · 2011-11-10 17:23:13

I got frustrated with the software's CPU usage so I uninstalled it. If I recall there may be a help file associated with it if you are still using it. I just manually back up things and move files, then shut it off when I'm not using it.

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