Sleepy Hard Drives

[andythefilmer]

There is an epidemic sweeping the nation of my editing desk! Hard drives fall asleep after several minutes......

Is there a setting in FCP or in my system pref's that can control the time before my drives go into idle? It isn't a huge deal, but it just gets annoying if I am watching raw footage on one drive then switch to my timeline where my render files reside on another drive, when I have to wait usually 20 sec for my footage to load back up...

BTW, I am using a G-Tech 1TB over FW800 for render files and a Seagate 2 TB over USB 2.0 for my raw footage...

 

[David Saraceno]

Using a USB2 hard drive for story video footage is not advised at all.

Not designed for video at all. If you must run off externals, use eSATA or FW800 for all media.

What computer and what are the specs on your video files?

If high definition, what codec?

Again, no USB2 for media drives.

 

[AndrewGentle]

There's a checkbox in the Energy Saver pref pane which puts the hard drives to sleep if they're not in use. It probably only affects the internal drives, though.