External Hard Drive won't spin down...

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  1. imofean, May 25, 2016

    imofean macrumors newbie

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    My hard drive won't spin down even it's idle for a while.
    When I put my iMac into sleep, the hard drive will spin up every 15 - 30 mins and then goes back to sleep.

    I keep getting this message in Console while the mac was sleeping. Are they the cause of this problem?

    Thanks!

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished.config
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.signature3: 1
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished.pv
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.signature3: 0303
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished.cs
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.signature3: c030
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished.key_type
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.signature3: rsa
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished.kxSigAlg
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.signature3: 05_01
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished.curve
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.signature3: p256
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:23.813 PM syncdefaultsd[1084]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished
    com.apple.message.signature: tls
    com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.syncdefaultsd
    com.apple.message.value_events: 1
    com.apple.message.value_alpn_received: 1
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: DD127F23-3398-3802-A227-EE5CE809CCAA

    25/5/2016 3:44:24.152 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:25.261 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:26.376 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:27.473 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:28.567 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:29.672 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:30.787 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:31.889 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85

    25/5/2016 3:44:33.011 PM apsd[80]: OSActivityID: 0x0000000000000f8a
    com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.apsd.15918893
    com.apple.message.signature: 1st Party
    com.apple.message.signature2: N/A
    com.apple.message.signature3: NO
    com.apple.message.summarize: YES
    SenderMachUUID: 5F6A4FB9-8243-3F61-B414-F74D87A45F85
     
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  2. fisherking, May 25, 2016

    fisherking macrumors 603

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  3. richard2, May 27, 2016

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    What is the manufacturer and model of the disc drive?
     
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  4. Shirasaki, May 27, 2016

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    HDD from some manufactures does not sleep after a while if it is being disconnected from computer. Turning off computer would cause HDD stop spinning in moments. I think this is due to HDD firmware and controller not able to let disk spinning down and turning off entirely.
    I have bought a lot of WD My Passport HDD and all could auto spin down after disconnecting from computer.

    But you say your HDD spins up every 15 -30 min and goes back to sleep. Then I think this might relate to Mac OS X. I don't know more detail about this though.
     
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