Jim, Are you sure that the hard drive is putting itself to sleep and not your computers energy saver settings? On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:42 PM, James Asherman wrote: > > On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 01:15 PM, Philip J. Robar wrote: > >>> I prefer Hitachi (was IBM) deskstars. .. > > I have a 9 gig scsi deskstar that I quite like. > The 80 gig ATA ultra star though, puts itself to sleep too often and > wakes sluggishly for me at least for editing. But they work great. > Jim > Dan Brieck Jr.