Some external hard drives that are connected via USB, eSATA or Firewire to a computer system have the annoying habit of going into power saving mode after ten to fifteen minutes. While this is not problematic at the time it becomes so when it leaves the power saving mode as this causes a system wide [...]
Sleep Talking Mode To Save Energy
Sleep Mode – which goes under the name standby, sleep or suspend depending on the operating system in use – has been created to save energy in situations where a computer system does not perform any active calculations. The operating system will power down most of the connected hardware devices except for the computer memory [...]
Prevent External Hard Drives From Entering Sleep Mode
Some external hard drives make use of a hard coded sleep mode that kicks in after some time of inactivity, usually between 10-15 minutes. The external hard drive will enter sleep mode and initiate a wake up when new data is requested of the drive. This can be problematic in some circumstances where the user [...]
Automatic Sleep Mode Wake Up
Sleep Mode, which is also known ans stand-by, deep sleep and suspend, is a low power mode for electronic devices that saves electronic consumption during that time. Wake Up On Standby is a software program for Microsoft Windows that can return the computer from sleep mode into normal mode, perform tasks and make it go [...]
Use Caffeine To Keep Your PC Awake
I’m normally the one who needs two fresh cups of coffee every morning before I start my usual routine of checking emails, comments and statistics of my online empire (hrhr) but the analogy of the software Caffeine is quite tempting.
Computers can go to sleep as well as we all know. They can fire up [...]
