New AirPort station and Western Digital MyBook ...drive always spinning

[wangchunggti337]

My friend has his My Book Premium 320GB set up over his network with his new AirPort Extreme base station. The problem is the drive in the My Book spins continually, which doesn't sit well with him. Shouldn't the drive only spin when it's writing?

Is there a setting he can tweak for this? Or is this just a common problem?

Thanks

oh yeah, he called Apple with no help.

 

[techshellmacbook]

IDK, but a drive spinning and not being used shouldnt really decrease the life.

 

[aristobrat]

I think it might be common.

My USB drive plugged into the Extreme spins the entire time anyone has it mounted. If everyone's computer is sleeping, the USB drive will eventually spin down... at least until someone's computer wakes up again.

Kinda sucks, IMO. I hope it's something that gets fixed on a future update.

 

[The Stig]

It is suppose to spin all the time. It kinda sucks if you have a drive that loud. But it does this so the drive is ready all the time.

The Stig

 

[e12a]

My external enclosure (did not come with drive) i bought spins down after an idle time of a few minutes. Spins back up when i access the drive. however, it only does that while connected to USB 2.0, but not when connected by FireWire.

Unmounting it under USB also shuts down the drive, but the enclosure is still powered on. Under firewire, the drive remains on, mounted or not.

You can see if the "put to hard drives to sleep when possible" is checked under energy savings. That might be affecting it too.

Read the owners manual. Im' sure there's something about it.

 

[el3ctone]

oh WOW, how do you get it to stay on all the time. Mine spins down too frequently. I seem to want to do the opposite of you. I want it to stay on continuously.

Heres the thread on my issue.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/579487/

Hopefully someone can help me fix my issue.