Mountain Lion slowing My Book Essential?

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Since upgrading to OSX 10.8, Mountan Lion, accessing my My Book Essential 2TB always involves a lag time of about 30 seconds on first use.  This is causing problems with my music composition software and iTunes library.

Is this likely to be a coincidence?  I do not have enough capacity elsewhere to make a complete backup to try new firmware.

Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

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Did you check and see if there were updated drivers for your drive from WD? They did release some drivers for Macs but I don’t know much about Macs

Joe

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Thanks - my WD software says I have the latest upgrade so I’m not sure if there’s a later driver available.  I’m nervous about replacing any software in case I lose data (I bought the 2TB unit because my old WD 1TB My Book started to play up.  

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I think it’s solved now - the disk was being put to sleep when not in use for a while  I did two things -

1.  using Smartware I went into Settings / Set Up Drive / Drive Settings /Settings / Sleep Timer and set it to ‘Never’.  (that alone didn’t work)

  1. In Mac System Preferences select Hardware/Energy Saver and unclick ‘Put hard disks to sleep when possible’ .

Seems to be working OK now.