An External Drive Spins Down, Goes to Sleep, Standby Mode

spin wd How to troubleshoot a WD External Drive that doesn't spin, isn't recognized, or clicks when connected.. I am using 2 REDs 8TB of size in my desktop computer which runs 247. Windows 10 does not spin down the drives when set it to so in the energy plan. Basically i want to save

spin 189 login, I recently aquired a WD Red 2tb, my issue is that when the drive is put to sleep, something seems to always wake it up. It will start spinning again after a few seconds or a.