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External Hard Drive Wake UP times?
I was hoping when I purchased my new laptop computer with my 3.0 USB ports that it would make a difference in the speed of the Wakeup times for the external drives. No such luck.
Every time I access either external USB after a period of time I click on the External Hard Drive Icon and it may take 30-40 seconds before it "wakes up". I have seen an option in the Power setting for HDD to never go to sleep but I have tried that previously and it still did not change the behavior of the EXTERNAL HDD. The power setting option AFAIK is only for the internal HDD not the external. Is that an internal program set up by the external HDD company to prevent the external power supply from burning out to soon?
Tonight I noticed a text script program that writes information in different time intervals to the External HDD that prevents the drive from powering down or never going to sleep. Would this hurt my external hard drive?