I followed the first few steps of this and added ‘exit 0’ to the beginning of wdmcserverd, wdphotodbmergerd, and restsdk-serverd. I’m sure there are more elegant ways to keep these from running but this seems to work. The drive eventually went to sleep. It does however wake up as soon as I click on Network in Windows Explorer. I guess that is OK.
I have a backup job that runs every night through Windows at 2:01 am so that wakes it up and from what I see in user.log it is waking back up at 3:00 am. Maybe Hillary is calling…
