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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1878808" data-attributes="member: 396914">But &quot;mounted&quot; and &quot;available&quot; are two different things. When you say you want to save to a location other than where you got the file, the OS queries all connected devices to ask if they are available. The sleeping drives have to wake up and respond to the query, or they are taken out of the options for saving the document. As chscag said, the spinning up is a drive function, not the OS. All the OS asks is &quot;are you there and ready&quot; and the drive mechanism does the spinning up in response. So the &quot;fault,&quot; if there is any, is with the drive makers. That's why I don't buy drives that sleep, if I know about it in advance. It's also why I use Amphetamine to tickle the drives to keep them spinning so that the OS doesn't have that pause while the spinners lumber into action.Only until the day I wanted to move the car from one bay to another. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; The hassle would be phenomenal as I'd have to find the remote for the bay I wanted in the last car to use that bay. (And your analogy is seriously flawed in that the Remote only asked the door openers if they were there, not to open. The question causes them all to open, a fault of the door opener, not the remote or house.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1878808, member: 396914"] But "mounted" and "available" are two different things. When you say you want to save to a location other than where you got the file, the OS queries all connected devices to ask if they are available. The sleeping drives have to wake up and respond to the query, or they are taken out of the options for saving the document. As chscag said, the spinning up is a drive function, not the OS. All the OS asks is "are you there and ready" and the drive mechanism does the spinning up in response. So the "fault," if there is any, is with the drive makers. That's why I don't buy drives that sleep, if I know about it in advance. It's also why I use Amphetamine to tickle the drives to keep them spinning so that the OS doesn't have that pause while the spinners lumber into action. Only until the day I wanted to move the car from one bay to another. :) The hassle would be phenomenal as I'd have to find the remote for the bay I wanted in the last car to use that bay. (And your analogy is seriously flawed in that the Remote only asked the door openers if they were there, not to open. The question causes them all to open, a fault of the door opener, not the remote or house.) [/QUOTE]

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