[SOLVED] Sleeping External HDD Slows Down PC

[Appletax]

Solution: use Western Digital Drive Utilities to put the HDD to sleep after a set amount of time (90 mins max), or turn off sleep.

Do not bother installing WD Discovery program. It's not useful.


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Got an external USB 3.0 8TB Western Digital HDD that is giving me a headache when attached to my laptop (Legion 5 Pro).

It goes to sleep after a brief period. When it's sleeping, it causes Explorer, Hardware Ejector, Diskpart/CMD, Empty Recycle Bin and more to take like 10 seconds to process because it has to wake the HDD up. It's super annoying. What can I do? Modify some setting to keep it awake at all times when the computer is on?

Turning off Power Management on 6 different things doesn't work:

 

[frase]

Check your Device Manager and under USB ROOT HUB>Power Management>Disable Turn Power OFF [uncheck]

 

[Appletax]

Check your Device Manager and under USB ROOT HUB>Power Management>Disable Turn Power OFF [uncheck]

Thank you!

I have two USB Root Hub (USB 3.0) - disabled both.

 

[Appletax]

Hopefully this doesn't keep the HDD active to where it's degrading the discs.

 

[Appletax]

Damn, the issue persists, but not nearly as bad.

Emailed Western Digital for help. Also asked WD Community for help.

Here's all of the hubs I have the Power Management featured turn off on:



The AMD USB 3.0 host controller has Power Management, too.

Worried about having so many Power Managements turned off!

Edit: turned it off and the HDD still goes to sleep. Grr!

 

[mikeroq]

Did you check the power options? In this picture, HDD sleep after 20 minutes and USB suspend:

 

[Appletax]

Did you check the power options? In this picture, HDD sleep after 20 minutes and USB suspend:

That is an option! It's not ideal as it applies to all USB devices (same with turning off Power Management on the USB hubs).

I found that Western Digital has a program for my drive. It has the ultimate solution!

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