iTunes Library lagging

[believo]

I've moved my itunes library to my recently installed internal SATA hard drive but when I first play a song in itunes it lags about 5 seconds before starting. Like the hard drive is asleep or something. Is there a way to fix this?

thanks

 

[mad jew]

What sort of machine do you have? Is the hard drive your boot drive?

 

[believo]

What sort of machine do you have? Is the hard drive your boot drive?

It's a G5 Tower. The drive is not my boot drive. It seems to be asleep or something for abouyt 5 seconds when I first access it.. after that its fine.

 

[mad jew]

That's normal. The computer puts the drive to sleep as it's not being used. Doing so extends the life of the drive and the entire machine (to a lesser degree) as less heat is built up. There are ways of preventing the drive from sleeping, but it's rarely a good idea.

 

[DoFoT9]

you could disable putting drives to sleep if you reallywant, loosing some life of both computer and harddrive. system pref>energy saver>"put harddisks to sleep when not in use"