Thursday, June 7, 2012

Hard Drives Wake Up and Spin Up For No Good Reason

With Mac OS X sometimes hard drives that are attached will spin up for no reason, when open/save dialogs appear, when quitting an application or when unmounting a .DMG.

Here's a little tip to reduce some of this, mainly the completely random wakings/Spin Ups.

It involves a little Terminal magic but it's not too bad.