Put Hard Disks Sleep When Possible in Ventura M1 Mac mini - option has disappeared

Escaladieu wrote:

This option in energy saver was available on my Mac mini M1 Ventura 13.5. However I notice that if one turns it off the option disappears - you can't turn it on again. Surely this is not by design?

Refer to image below from a M1 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.5 with an External Drive attached

It is posing a real problem for me - In Adobe Lightroom when I right click Lightroom will wait for any external disks to spin up before responding. This takes several seconds and is slowing me down a lot!

My external disks are for backup only and not used by Lightroom. In order to work efficiently I have to unmount the backup disks and then of course forget to remount them for backups.

Others have also experienced the problem -> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/put-hard-disks-to-sleep-energy-saver-settings-disappearing.2397175/

Is there any way to force this option to reappear?

You may what to explore while in Terminal Application

The >> man pmset << for various options to keep the external Drive Active ALL the time

Be very certain what you do in there as;

1 - Terminal Commands are Not Forgiving. One small dash, period or slash can create havoc

2 - Changing things in pmset affects the entireer computer at the lowest level and even before the computers' Operating System is loaded

Excerpt from the man page

SETTINGS

       disksleep - disk spindown timer; replaces 'spindown' argument in 10.4 (value in minutes, or 0 to disable)

It appears it may be a bug in Ventura 13.5. The only options are at this point, wait for a fix in a future update or downgrade to 13.4.1.

You can send apple a bug report from the feedback page.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Leandro_Brazil wrote:

Here is where you get this option - just type "sleep" on system settings and you will find this option, even though it doesn't make much sense with SSD:

I think the problem is that this option is under Battery > Options.

Is the Battery selection even present on a Mac mini?

Here is where you get this option - just type "sleep" on system settings and you will find this option, even though it doesn't make much sense with SSD:

Cheers,

LM

Ventura 13.5:

the removed it when Apple decided o put MVME drives in their Macs, hence it's not needed inn NVME era!

Welcome and thank you too

No - as it is considered a Desktop running off the Mains ( Wall electrical Socket )

On a Laptop your above would appear when External is Attached

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