How do I prevent external hard drives from going to sleep every 30 seconds on a new MacBook Pro M4 Max?
Ok so here's my situation...
I do a ton of video editing for social media so I have three 20tb external hard drives connected to my Mac via a powered USB Hub and a few other smaller portable hard drives also connected. They are all formatted APFS:
I just bought a new MacBook Pro a few months ago. M4 Max running Sequoia updated to the most recent version.
I have been using these hard drives on my previous MacBook and I also connect them to my MacBook Air when I need to use that one.
On those other two Macbooks, these drives never powered down and went to sleep. This was never an issue before.
But on my new M4 Macbook Pro, my god, they go to sleep like every 30 seconds! I'm not even exaggerating!
I'll be doing some work, drag in a video clip, work on that clip for like MAYBE a minute, go to drag in another clip, and all my drives have to spin up again! And it seems to take sometimes 30-45 seconds for them to spin up and my files to load.
And yes, I have the option checked in battery settings not to put the hard drives to sleep (the hard drives just had to wake up again for me to attach this photo)
I have also tried some "disksleep" settings (sudo pmset -a disksleep 90) that were suggested that I did in terminal. Nothing seems to work no matter what I changed that disksleep number to.
I don't understand why this has ONLY BEEN AN ISSUE WITH THIS MAC! (that's important to remember, if I disconnect these drives from this Mac and connect them to my MacBook Air sitting right next to me, they work perfectly fine.)
People have told me that it's an issue with the drives themselves going to sleep and that's part of their operating system, but if that's the case, why did they never do this before? I seem to be able to rule out that the problem is the drives and the problem is in fact specifically this M4 Macbook Pro that I'm using.
Seriously someone please PLEASE help! This is driving me insane!
Thank you.
