Good day all,
My first post on this forum, however I've been using and repairing Macs for a LONG time. Onto my problem... For a very long time, I've been using home sharing to stream to my Apple TVs from a 2012 Mac mini running Mojave(didn't want to go to Catalina since they got rid of iTunes). I'd say I had around 3TB of movies, TV shows and music being hosted from iTunes and everything ran pretty well.. until I had Seagate hard drive fail(second seagate to fail by the way) which took down my media server until I had time to rebuild from a backup. Since it was the perfect time, I decided to upgrade to an M1 Mac mini running Monterey. That's when I started to have my main issue. The external hard drive goes to sleep and wakes from sleep CONSTANTLY. Sometimes almost immediately after going to sleep. I've troubleshot EVERYTHING I can think of and it seems to be related either to the M1 Mac mini itself or the fact that its running Monterey. I've swapped hard drives, swapped cables, rebuilt the library file from scratch and it had the same symptoms no matter what I did. Finally, I decided to go BACK to my 2012 Mini, upgrade to Catalina(latest supported OS) and try the same external hard drives from the M1. It runs BEAUTIFULLY! It does put the hard drives to sleep, and wakes them when data is being requested but not in the crazy erratic way that the M1 does. I have a feeling that if I ran the M1 the way it was, it would kill the hard drive in a month or so, not to mention driving me insane having to hear it constantly sleeping and waking that external drive. Anyone else having similar issues? Any ideas that I haven't thought of?
By the way, the only thing I haven't tried is rolling the M1 back to Big Sur and trying it that way. Maybe that's the answer but I'm so tired of working on this issue I was hoping that someone has a fix for me.
Thanks.
My first post on this forum, however I've been using and repairing Macs for a LONG time. Onto my problem... For a very long time, I've been using home sharing to stream to my Apple TVs from a 2012 Mac mini running Mojave(didn't want to go to Catalina since they got rid of iTunes). I'd say I had around 3TB of movies, TV shows and music being hosted from iTunes and everything ran pretty well.. until I had Seagate hard drive fail(second seagate to fail by the way) which took down my media server until I had time to rebuild from a backup. Since it was the perfect time, I decided to upgrade to an M1 Mac mini running Monterey. That's when I started to have my main issue. The external hard drive goes to sleep and wakes from sleep CONSTANTLY. Sometimes almost immediately after going to sleep. I've troubleshot EVERYTHING I can think of and it seems to be related either to the M1 Mac mini itself or the fact that its running Monterey. I've swapped hard drives, swapped cables, rebuilt the library file from scratch and it had the same symptoms no matter what I did. Finally, I decided to go BACK to my 2012 Mini, upgrade to Catalina(latest supported OS) and try the same external hard drives from the M1. It runs BEAUTIFULLY! It does put the hard drives to sleep, and wakes them when data is being requested but not in the crazy erratic way that the M1 does. I have a feeling that if I ran the M1 the way it was, it would kill the hard drive in a month or so, not to mention driving me insane having to hear it constantly sleeping and waking that external drive. Anyone else having similar issues? Any ideas that I haven't thought of?
By the way, the only thing I haven't tried is rolling the M1 back to Big Sur and trying it that way. Maybe that's the answer but I'm so tired of working on this issue I was hoping that someone has a fix for me.
Thanks.