Prevent Hard Drive From Sleep Mac App

Leave the drives spinning. There's no need to use the Energy Saver option on the Mac Pro. That option is intended mainly for notebooks in order to conserve battery power. If you have the MP connected to a UPS, then enable the option only when on UPS power where it may make a difference.
The amount of energy a single hard drive consumes with the drive spinning versus not spinning is only a couple of watts. If you are really concerned about energy consumption then put the computer to sleep which will also spin down the drives.

Prevent hard drives from entering sleep mode by automatically creating empty text documents at a given time interval using this simple app What's new in NoSleepHD 2.0: Monitor multiple drives at once. Download link is in the show more tab: Take a Second to Subscribe and Thumbs up if you're. This handy Caffeine app can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode on demand. An icon in the menu bar will allow you to toggle the setting for those occasional times when you need to computer to run uninterrupted. Click on the cup to toggle Caffeine. System settings apply when the cup is empty, and Caffeine is working when the cup is full.

Prevent Hard Drive From Sleep Mac App Download

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Oct 18, 2009 11:41 AM

Prevent Hard Drive From Sleep Mac Apps

Prevent Disk Sleep is a free app designed to block your USB, primary, secondary hard disk drive from going into sleep mode. Prevent Disk Sleep comes in a simple UI that permits a quick setup.