USB HDD shutdown???

leejones · Post by **leejones** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:06 pm

Hi there,

I'm using a 36gb WD Raptor 10K HDD for my main HDD. Because I have everything setup in an ASUS pundit at present, there is no more room for a second HDD, so I've just started using a 300gb external USB HDD for all the Ableton set and tune storage.

Problem is whilst running ableton, the USB HDD seems to shut down after a short period and need to "kickstart" again when i need to access new samples. I've looked at all the obvious power settings and everything seems fine. Could it just be this HDD or is there anything I can do???

Thanks for your help...

Herne · Post by **Herne** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:40 pm

Go to Device Manager, Disk Drives, policies tab, and set all drives for performance.
Then expand USB controllers, select the USB Root Hub the drive is plugged into, R-click, properties, Power Management, untick 'allow windows to annoy me by powering down this device'.
You need to make both changes for best results.
Hope this helps.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:58 pm

Some external drives will shut down after a few minutes of activity no matter what settings you change in Windows or OSX. My Seagate external does this, and yes it's really annoying.