Keep one usb drive from sleep

[SticKx911]

I recently bought a Seagate external 26tb drive to consolidate my plex library to a single drive, but it's starting to cause more problems than it fixed. I suspect it's going into a deep sleep state of some form and leads to long enough delays that plex often just fails to load the videos and requires multiple re tries.

Is there a way to keep this drive "up"? Pulling it from the shell and putting on sata comes to mind, but I hoped there might be setting in windows I missed when I tried to Google it.

 

[Meeho]

If you don't find the related setting, you could always write a simple bat/Powershell script to periodically ping the drive.

 

[pendragon1]

in device manager, set the hub it is on to never power down and turn off selective suspend.
in power settings set "turn off hdd after" to never
try that

 

[Nobu]

via technewstoday,

Does your usb drive not have a setting like this?

 

[SticKx911]

via technewstoday,

Does your usb drive not have a setting like this?
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I didn't see this in settings, but that would be exactly what I was hoping to find. I'll check for it again. Thanks

 

[pendragon1]

I didn't see this in settings, but that would be exactly what I was hoping to find. I'll check for it again. Thanks

device manager:

forgot this one...

 

[westrock2000]

If you don't find the related setting, you could always write a simple bat/Powershell script to periodically ping the drive.

This was my first thought. Just a batch file that does something like
D:
dir
And then make a Task Scheduler task and set it to repeat every 10 minutes. Easy and straight forward.