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External HDD Spins Down Every 30 secs - Can't find a solution to stop this from happening
My Seagate Expansion Desktop External HDD keeps spinning down after just 30 secs of inactivity. First off I know there are already a lot of posts on how to stop this from happening and believe me I ...
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Prevent external hard drive from sleeping Windows 10
I have Windows 10 Pro on MS Surface go 2.
The external HDD is connected with USB3.0 hub.
All works fine, but once the HDD is for like 10 sec inactive, it's going to sleep right away.
I haven't found ...
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Windows Defender won't let an external drive (WD My Book) sleep
Well, the topic title says it all. I recently purchased a Western Digital My Book 8TB and no matter what I couldn't get it to stand by/sleep. I tried everything: messing around with USB power options, ...
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External HD Sleeping on Windows 10
I have an external SSD HD (Kingston HD with an Orico USB3 enclosure) that seems to fall asleep after 15 minutes of being idle.
I've checked all my power settings for USB and for Hard drives to never ...
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