Hard Drivers set not to sleep |
December, 09, 2002 11:40 AM |
swoup1213 |
I remember reading somewhere in this forum that it is not recommended to let the hard drives spin down or go into sleep mode and that one of the first orders of business after installing OSX is to set the energy control panel to never. Is is safe or not safe to let the drives spin down? I'm running Jaguar 10.2.2 on my 9500 and so far everything works as promised. Thanks Keith |
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RE: Hard Drivers set not to sleep |
December, 10, 2002 9:33 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Some people did have trouble with hard drive sleep in 10.0, but 10.1 and later seem to be OK. System sleep can still cause some issues, though. |
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RE: Hard Drivers set not to sleep |
December, 10, 2002 3:10 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Actually I have been using OSX since the 10.00 release and I don't believe Xpostfacto ever had a serious problem with sleep. I think originally some drives wouldn't spin down, but I really don't remember ANY data corruption issues other then the ones provided by Apple on the powerbooks.... Marty |
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RE: Hard Drivers set not to sleep |
December, 09, 2002 4:15 PM |
marcush |
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I think that problem has largely dissapeared. I've been allowing my drives to sleep since 10.1.5 came out. I'm running 10.2.2 on a Power Tower Pro and drive sleep causes no problems. |