Comments on: How Do I Keep My Western Digital Mybook External Drive From Spinning Down Between Accesses? http://www.techenigma.com/2009/10/how-do-i-keep-my-western-digital-mybook-external-drive-from-spinning-down-between-accesses/ Technology.Simple Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:02:55 +1100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: stu_the_http://www.techenigma.com/2009/10/how-do-i-keep-my-western-digital-mybook-external-drive-from-spinning-down-between-accesses/comment-page-1/#comment-1425 stu_the_ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:11:26 +0000 http://www.techenigma.com/2009/10/how-do-i-keep-my-western-digital-mybook-external-drive-from-spinning-down-between-accesses#comment-1425 umm, download a hdd stress test? maybe but that would take away bandwidth so i dont recommend it if they exist go to softpedia.com and search your terms lots of freeware and stuff there

umm, download a hdd stress test?
maybe
but that would take away bandwidth so i dont recommend it if they exist
go to softpedia.com and search your terms
lots of freeware and stuff there

]]> By: Steve Chttp://www.techenigma.com/2009/10/how-do-i-keep-my-western-digital-mybook-external-drive-from-spinning-down-between-accesses/comment-page-1/#comment-1424 Steve C Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:48:05 +0000 http://www.techenigma.com/2009/10/how-do-i-keep-my-western-digital-mybook-external-drive-from-spinning-down-between-accesses#comment-1424 The spin down is built into the drive and does not take effect until the drive has not been accessed for some time. I have 2 of these on my PC and it's quite a long wait before they spin down, but then the shortened life of the drives if they didn't is NOT to my mind worth the second or two it takes to spin up again, so I'd say live with it, or save your documents on an internat drive and back them up to the WD Mybook

The spin down is built into the drive and does not take effect until the drive has not been accessed for some time.
I have 2 of these on my PC and it’s quite a long wait before they spin down, but then the shortened life of the drives if they didn’t is NOT to my mind worth the second or two it takes to spin up again, so I’d say live with it, or save your documents on an internat drive and back them up to the WD Mybook

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