Annoying stall before open/save dialog with firewire drive attached
I think it's the wrong choice to have the stall happen before opening the dialog box instead of letting you get to the dialog and decide from there. If you want something on the external drive, or if that's where you want to save a file, then it should spin up the drive. It shouldn't spin up the drive unless a request is made of it. More often than not, I don't need anything from the external drive and yet I have to suffer the stall and I think it's wrong to spin up the drive when there is no explicit access requested. Better to just leave it sleeping. Spin up/spin down is unnecessary wear and tear, I would think.
2 Comments:
Completely agree.
What's worse, however, is that I experience stalls in Safari every once in a while while doing nothing but browsing, without going to file dialog.
Usually happens when I click the link when drive is quiet, I would hear it spin up, and Safari completely blocks with the spinning beach ball of death (interestingly enough, the activity indicator in Safari still animates while everything else is blocked)
Go figure.
By
slobo, at January 15, 2009
I hear it's Spotlight causing this.
By
sitenoise, at January 21, 2009
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