im having a weird (at least i think its weird, never experienced it before) issue with my seagate external desktop harddrive, the drive keeps powering off after a while say 15min or so of not registering any activity, the drive itself is plugged in through usb 3.0. It has been a problem lately to game since once its loaded textures and stuff into ram it stops the activity, and if the level im playing is not big enough to require constant data loading the drive shuts down, the system sound for disconected devices plays and the game crashes. I thought it would be a game files issue but i tried reinstalling and it happens throughout several games, i also did a scan with windows tools for drive file system errors and found nothing.
Has anyone experienced a similar issue? or any ideas on how to solve it?
sounds like some sort of power saving feature that is enabled. Are there any settings you can change that are associated with the drive to keep it spun up? I know in windows there are 'advanced' power settings that allow you to set the time before you hard drives spin down due to inactivity.
I though it could be that and i checked the advanced settings, i have set the usb power to never stop when plugged in (mind you i always game with the pc plugged in), and the drives to stop after 120 minutes, so i dont think its that, unless there is another set of settings that im not aware of
hmm...is this drive considered a Hard drive or an External hard drive by your system? also, is there any software that is used by the EHD? I have only had one EHD before, it was a seagate drive, and it died after a couple months, so I don't have a lot of experience with these drives.
i think as a regular hard drive, when i open the properties it says Local Disk, about the software i just went to seagate's website and they have this drive settings software im going to test it out right now as soon as it finishes downloading
ok so apparently apart from the advanced power management settings under the device management in the control panel i disabled ability of the os to turn of the usb ports to save battery and until now its worked pretty nicely.
seagate's software sadly doesnt work in windows 8 so that wasnt the solution