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Q: eSata backup drives (only) - Sleep mode?

Hey, folks.

 

I have a mid-2012  5,1 Mac Pro.  I use it for FCPx and digital audio, so I don't want to globally put all drives into any kind of sleep or power-saving mode.   However, I WOULD like to have just my external "spinning" backup drives sleep, if possible.

 

I just ordered two Sonnet Tempo Pro Plus PCIe cards,  so as to have internal 6G SSD throughput, but now I will also finally have eSATA for my backup drives.  (I had been using USB 2.0)

 

Is there a way to enable "sleep" or some other energy saver on JUST those external drives?  I can't figure it out.

 

THX.

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 3:00 PM