Question about Windows 10 and External Drives

Alciel

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Does Windows 10 by default turn off external hard drives when not in use? I notice that my external drive lights turn off when I'm not using my externals for anything.

I use Plex so I think that this may present a problem for me. Is there a way to turn off the hard drive turn off feature on Windows 10 if there even is one?
 

Alciel

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Alright, Thank you for your quick response.

Does the option "Turn off Disk When Inactive" affect the USB Externals? It seems that I can't turn that option off, I can only increase the time to when it sleeps. Or does this not affect my external USB drives?
 

Alciel

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Alright, I will try setting it to 0.

The external drives I am using are Seagate Expansion drives, I'm not sure if this has the same settings at a Western Digital Expansions. I could be wrong though.

Thanks for both your replies.