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Hello all, this is my first post in this forum.
A little backstory...
I'm a dj and run two identical MD103LL/A MBP's. i recently pulled my superdrives and replaced them with 2 identical WD Mainstream Classique 500GB 5400rpm drives. I believe these to be the same drive as the Blue series. They store all of my DJ music and a little extra data for storage.
One of my computers seems to spindown my hard drives after about 90 seconds regardless of settings in OSX. for my dj purposes i really need the drives to remain spinning for at least 10 minutes (or never spindown at all if possible). i'm constantly waiting for my drive to spin back up to load music. i have tried the standard sysprefs power window, and have also given the pmset command in terminal. i have tried the -b and -a flags as well. i have also reset PRAM and SMC. i have even switched out the ext hard drive to a brand new one with the same results. the only difference between the computers is the one with the issues has 16gb of ram and was upgraded to 10.9.4 from mountain lion, while the other (issue-less) computer has 4gb of ram and had mavericks installed on a clean slate.
i have searched a few forums and so far i've only found people who've had the exact opposite problem - that their drives will never spin down. i'd love this issue!
any ideas? i'm all ears.
thanks!
A little backstory...
I'm a dj and run two identical MD103LL/A MBP's. i recently pulled my superdrives and replaced them with 2 identical WD Mainstream Classique 500GB 5400rpm drives. I believe these to be the same drive as the Blue series. They store all of my DJ music and a little extra data for storage.
One of my computers seems to spindown my hard drives after about 90 seconds regardless of settings in OSX. for my dj purposes i really need the drives to remain spinning for at least 10 minutes (or never spindown at all if possible). i'm constantly waiting for my drive to spin back up to load music. i have tried the standard sysprefs power window, and have also given the pmset command in terminal. i have tried the -b and -a flags as well. i have also reset PRAM and SMC. i have even switched out the ext hard drive to a brand new one with the same results. the only difference between the computers is the one with the issues has 16gb of ram and was upgraded to 10.9.4 from mountain lion, while the other (issue-less) computer has 4gb of ram and had mavericks installed on a clean slate.
i have searched a few forums and so far i've only found people who've had the exact opposite problem - that their drives will never spin down. i'd love this issue!
any ideas? i'm all ears.
thanks!