I have a number of external USB drives.
Am using them either connected to my PC (drives should not go to sleep then)
or -some of them- with my media player in the living room, in which case I’d like the drive going to sleep.
I cud switch off/unplug the drives there, but my experience is that I’ll forget to do that so the drives will be
up and running all the times (maybe days) until I discover to unplug them.
| WDH1CS10000E | My Book Home Edition 1 TB |
| WDE1UBK10000E | Elements External USB Drive 1 TB |
| WDE1UBK10000E | Elements External USB Drive 1 TB |
| WDBAAF0020HBK | My Book Essential 2 TB |
| WDBACW0030HBK | My Book Essential 3 TB |
Because of the changing situation (PC and livingroom), using Smartware to disable falling asleep is not suitable.
I think, specifically the 3TB drive is causing delay in response from Explorer on my PC.
Q: Is there any other decent solution than Smartware?
Q: Does Smartware change any firmware settings, so that maybe powersave settings from WIndows7 may not have any effects?
Am using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.
Thanks
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