Despite setting my external drives to stay awake, they often spin down. There are a number of third-party solutions, but they all seem to be quite old. What solution might there be for an M1 mac running Monterey?
Mac mini, macOS 12.3
The native Terminal command without quotation marks and no third party software required
" caffeinate -m "
NAME
caffeinate – prevent the system from sleeping on behalf of a utility
SYNOPSIS
caffeinate [-disu] [-t timeout] [-w pid] [utility arguments...]
DESCRIPTION
caffeinate creates assertions to alter system sleep behavior. If no
assertion flags are specified, caffeinate creates an assertion to prevent
idle sleep. If a utility is specified, caffeinate creates the assertions
on the utility's behalf, and those assertions will persist for the duration
of the utility's execution. Otherwise, caffeinate creates the assertions
directly, and those assertions will persist until caffeinate exits.
Available options:
-d Create an assertion to prevent the display from sleeping.
-i Create an assertion to prevent the system from idle sleeping.
-m Create an assertion to prevent the disk from idle sleeping.
-s Create an assertion to prevent the system from sleeping. This
The native Terminal command without quotation marks and no third party software required
" caffeinate -m "
NAME
caffeinate – prevent the system from sleeping on behalf of a utility
SYNOPSIS
caffeinate [-disu] [-t timeout] [-w pid] [utility arguments...]
DESCRIPTION
caffeinate creates assertions to alter system sleep behavior. If no
assertion flags are specified, caffeinate creates an assertion to prevent
idle sleep. If a utility is specified, caffeinate creates the assertions
on the utility's behalf, and those assertions will persist for the duration
of the utility's execution. Otherwise, caffeinate creates the assertions
directly, and those assertions will persist until caffeinate exits.
Available options:
-d Create an assertion to prevent the display from sleeping.
-i Create an assertion to prevent the system from idle sleeping.
-m Create an assertion to prevent the disk from idle sleeping.
-s Create an assertion to prevent the system from sleeping. This
I think I answered my own question. The app 'Amphetamine' in the App Store seems to work well.
Prevent external drives from spinning down
