eSata drive goes to sleep


  1. daniellouwrens
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    eSata drive goes to sleep


    Hi

    I have W7 x64 and have a hard drive attached to an eSata port on my PC.

    When I have not been using my PC for a few minutes the attached drive seems to go to sleep, and if I copy large folder (>20Gig) from my main (C) hard drive to my eSata drive the speed starts okay then slows to virtually nothing after 20 minutes.

    If I try to access the drive in explorer it takes a few seconds after I click on the drive to show the contents, this does not happen if I click on my C: drive.

    I have my Power settings set to High Performance and my Hard Drive "Sleep" settings set to Never.

    How do I keep my attached eSata drive from going to sleep (or whatever the problem is)

    Thanks

    Daniel
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  3. daniellouwrens
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    Bump...

    Surely someone has a solution the try.

    Cheers

    Daniel
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