Lacie 2big Dock Thunderbolt 3 - Issue o Normal

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Lacie 2big Dock Thunderbolt 3 - Issue o Normal

Hello and thanks in advance.

I Bought a Lacie 2big Dock TB3 for my new mac studio, since it seem fast and with good compatibility.

After starting the mac from a stop/standby opening the Lacie to search for a file takes 5 second to start the disk since the Lacie is in stand by.

The same, if i'm using the mac and don't need to access the Lacie, after some minutes the lacie goes in stand by and getting a file inside of it takes 5 second to awake it.

This doesn't occur after that initial 5 second, subsequently the files are immediately available ad everything is fast... until it goes to sleep if i don't use any file in the lacie.

I unchecked the power saving option that stop the disk anytime the mac could... but with no result.

Another issue: when i put the Mac in Stop/sleep mode for the night... sometimes the Lacie croacks and start for some second

Any suggestion?

thanks!

J

Mac Studio

Posted on Sep 26, 2022 09:35 AM

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LyleFromVegas

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Sep 26, 2022 01:59 PM in response to CamouflaJJ

I'm not familiar with LaCie but assume that the drive is going to sleep by itself from nonuse. Considering this is an actual hard drive and not an SSD, hard drives fail and wear out as they spin. Which is why it goes to sleep to lessen the wear, that is a good thing.

Often we use an external drive as a backup or for seldom-used data files. Let's say you use it one hour out of the day. Do you want the drive to spin for 23 hours to save 5 seconds?

Personally, I never use an external hard drive with over 20,000 hours on it for anything important and will generally replace them around 15,000 hours. I know that I'm losing use of the drive but if it happens to die when I try to get an extra 6 months out of the drive and the data are irreplaceable, then I'm screwed. If you want to drive a drive to death then use a drive with RAID 1 which will let you replace the failed drive without losing data. Always consider the value of the information against failure.

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