Leaderboard

oh you're welcome just as an afterthought and to perhaps clarify, if DrivePool is the only StableBit product you are trialing, simply turning off bitlocker SHOULD solve the sleep issue and allow windows to handle normal drive/sleep control duties. since Scanner is a drive health monitoring utility, it must occasionally communicate with the drives, thereby potentially waking them up. yes there are settings within that allow user control over them and that is all fine and dandy but, if it's not installed then it's not there to further complicate things initially. perhaps just get DrivePool up and running as you like and the sleep issue handled first, then see about Scanner. i myself wouldn't run a pool without it; the wealth of info it provides about my system in general is well worth the price of admission, and the occasional alert i've received has nipped any real trouble in the bud. long story short here, the second link provided while very interesting and helpful indeed, is mostly moot unless StableBit Scanner is actually installed. and, i can't imagine any scenario where one MUST have Scanner installed in order for drive sleep to happen simply because DrivePool is installed. if you already have both DP and Scanner installed, well great. you can't go wrong there. let us know how it goes and how you finalize your setup