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keeping drives "awake"
I can't say for sure this is an SP1 issue, or not, since I purchased my new comp soon after SP1 came out, so never ran the old box with SP1, and never ran the new one without it. . . but, I've noticed that drives other than the C drive seem to cycle down much more frequently, or, at least, take more time to "wake" when they are accessed for the first time in a while. This is quite annoying, since my primary C drive is a small SSD, so I run only the OS and applications from it, everything else is kept on a second internal, and three externals.
My question is this, is there some setting somewhere that will keep drives from napping, or, make them sleep less deeply, to run with the metaphor, so there is no lag when I need to access files on them? Or perhaps is there some app out there that will gently ping drives at set intervals keeping them 'awake'?
Thanks as always for your time gents!
Russell