- HOW TO INSTALL WD DRIVE UTILITIES EASYSTORE INSTALL
- HOW TO INSTALL WD DRIVE UTILITIES EASYSTORE SOFTWARE
HOW TO INSTALL WD DRIVE UTILITIES EASYSTORE SOFTWARE
“Why are you folks not listening? Get WD software and use it. Plus I researched what you wrote, which would have resulted in me installing closed source code, from WD, on my Chia machines, and I wrote that I will not be installing any non-essential software on my Chia machines (the software would be essential only if it actually fixed my issue).Įvery point that I clearly spelled out, you ignored. That is what I did (see my original comment). And you state that I should do a bit of my own research. Then, when you realize that you were steering the customer down a dead end, you cop an attitude.īecause of your suggestions, I spent a good deal of time researching everything that your posted as a solution.
HOW TO INSTALL WD DRIVE UTILITIES EASYSTORE INSTALL
You should not have them install software that does not fix their issue. The point of offering someone help is to guide them towards a solution that they reported. Next, you had me installing WD’s Utility software, which does not fix my g-drive issue. If not for my due diligence, I would have followed your bad instructions.įirst you had me installing WD’s Discovery software, which has zero to do with this issue. I wrote that I needed tools to keep my g-technology drives from sleeping. Get whatever tools you want/need and use them for whatever products you have. Go to and you’ll find support for whatever there is available. I’m not trying to brush you off, I gave you good information and what they do. You need to do a bit of your own research to get exactly what you ask. Has anyone else had this “sleep” (or power savings) issue with WD / g-technology drives? The script then sleeps (via Windows “timeout.exe” command) and repeats. My work-around was to write a keepalive.bat script that writes a few byes of data to each drive. I checked every conceivable power related setting that I could find in Windows, and all are set to maximum performance and zero power savings. They have no software tool that can issue a change of settings to their drives. But that was met with a repetition of “Windows blah, blah, blah”. I told them that my Seagate drives never sleep. So I called WD, and they insisted that Windows tells the drives when to sleep. By elegant, I mean a way to tell the drive to not sleep. I could find no elegant solutions on-line. I have Seagate and LaCie (a Seagate brand) drives, too, and they do not go to sleep. This is the case for WD labeled drives, as well as g-technology drives (a WD brand). My external, Western Digital, USB based drives go to sleep, by default, after a few minutes.