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External hard drive spinning up during sleep
Every time I close the lid on my macbook air, my external hard drive seems to spin up for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds, and this will go on continuously, even for several hours. The noise itself ...
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Is it necessary to eject an external drive before sleeping?
I have a question similar to a previous one about ejecting before shutting down.
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before putting a Mac to sleep, whether it be via an ...
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External hard disc not ejected properly - Mac OSX
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running OSX 10.8.2. My iTunes library lives on an external Seagate drive, which has its own power supply. When my Mac Mini goes to sleep it will frequently wake up with ...
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How can I prevent external hard disk from sleeping when connected to Airport Extreme?
I have a 1TB external hard disk from Seagate connected to the USB port of my Airport Extreme and everytime I need to access it I have to wait some time until it leaves the sleep mode.
Is there a way ...
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How to get a mac to wait longer for external disk to wake up upon resuming from sleep?
My Mac has an external disk attached, and I often get "disk not ejected properly" warnings after resuming the computer from sleep. These warnings appear only when the disk has spun down during the ...
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External HDD Unmounted After Sleep
I have the new iMac 21,5" and a Samsung G3 Station 1,5TB external HDD. When I plug my HDD, connecting to energy and via USB, no problems, Mac OS recognizes it and I can use it normally. The problem ...
