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Using Hard Drive Toaster with 2 Drives = frequent disconnects
Hi there,
As the forum topic states, I have two hard drives (one 500 gigs and another 6TB) in a hard drive toaster connected to windows 10. The hard drive toaster supports drives up to 8TB, by the way. What happens is that my computer, which is on for more than a day or two, eventually disconnects the drives, even though the toaster is still running. I'm forced to power down the toaster and power it back on to get Windows 10 to recognize it, which I'm sure isn't the best for the drives.
Sometimes, when the drives are powered back on, Windows 10 says there are errors with the drives and that they need to be scanned. Mind you, I've done nothing with the drives other than using them as storage. I tried to fix this by going into the power options and setting USB selective suspend to 'disabled', but the drives keep powering down when they're not in use and then, Win 10 eventually kicks them off the system, which requires the above steps to get them recognized again.
Is there any way I can just keep the drives on at all times so this doesn't happen? The drives are perfectly healthy drives.
Thank you very much for the help!