External Hard Drive - Semi Sleep?

[Lee_Mac]

This is something I never experienced with my i9 MBP using exactly the same externals as my M1 Max. If I've left the system running, no screen saver, hard drive sleep or power nap. The issue is if there's been no activity to a drive it seems to go into a semi state of sleep. Never had this previously and is extremely annoying while trying to work.

I've noticed this on my QWB 8B and various SSD and HDD drives when requiring activity. Anyone else having this problem?

 

[Lee_Mac]

Bump for any comment please?

 

[Sanpete]

What is this state you refer to, or the problem from it? Is the drive slow to start back up?

 

[fa8362]

This is something I never experienced with my i9 MBP using exactly the same externals as my M1 Max. If I've left the system running, no screen saver, hard drive sleep or power nap. The issue is if there's been no activity to a drive it seems to go into a semi state of sleep. Never had this previously and is extremely annoying while trying to work.

I've noticed this on my QWB 8B and various SSD and HDD drives when requiring activity. Anyone else having this problem?

I haven't had any issues using a variety of HDDs and SSDs with my 16" M1 Pro.

 

[Lee_Mac]

What is this state you refer to, or the problem from it? Is the drive slow to start back up?

It’s not slow to start back up, it is definitely in a sleep mode. I was working on a few photos this evening and you can definitely hear the drive spool down. Then, whenever I need to access any drive, regardless of where I’m saving it to finder hangs until the drive spools back,up.
As another example I went to save an email attachment, had to wait 15-20 second while the drive spooled up so that finder would pop up to let me sage it somewhere. Only wanted to save it to my desktop. This is affecting things system wide with finder.

It’s odd behaviour, never had this before.

 

[Sanpete]

15-20 seconds with SSDs too? I can imagine trouble with a spinning drive, though why it's different than it was before I don't know. But if SSDs are behaving that way too, the problem would likely be something other than drive behavior. How are they connected?

 

[Lee_Mac]

15-20 seconds with SSDs too? I can imagine trouble with a spinning drive, though why it's different than it was before I don't know. But if SSDs are behaving that way too, the problem would likely be something other than drive behavior. How are they connected?

Not 100% sure currently regarding SSD’s but was going to double check this tomorrow as a shoot today. I’m fairly certain I did have the same oddity though the other night when offloading some footage.

 

[Lee_Mac]

It’s definitely the OWC which is causing finder to wait until the unit is back up and running. I’m fired an email off to their support see what they come back with. It’s odd that this is an issue on the M1 and not on my old i9 MBP using Monterey.

 

[Fubar1977]

It might not be that specific drive that's the issue. I have 3 external drives attached via a hub and I've noticed that they regularly seem to drop into a kind of "sleep" state and take a good few seconds to spool back up again even if I've been using them very recently. Never happened on my old Intel MBP. It's actually really annoying. I'm toying with turning off the "put hard drives to sleep when possible" option but I'd rather not.

 

[Lee_Mac]

It might not be that specific drive that's the issue. I have 3 external drives attached via a hub and I've noticed that they regularly seem to drop into a kind of "sleep" state and take a good few seconds to spool back up again even if I've been using them very recently. Never happened on my old Intel MBP. It's actually really annoying. I'm toying with turning off the "put hard drives to sleep when possible" option but I'd rather not.

I have that off anyway so I'm a bit confused in the whole matter. I have spent a day editing and not seen the problem so far. I'm waiting on OWC support on replying to my email see if they have any suggestions.