StayAwake is a small and simple Freeware application that prevents external hard disk drives from entering the sleep mode. Some external hard disk drives make use of a sleep mode that kicks in after some time of inactivity. The external hard disk drive will wake up again when new data is requested from the drive. This wake up delay can be irritating or even problematic under some circumstances. The free StayAwake application effectively prevents external hard disk drives from entering the sleep mode. The StayAwake application does this by writing a small text file in the root of the drive every time interval. StayAwake will run invisible after you have configured it and uses very little system resources.

StayAwake is very flexible and offers the following settings:

• Selection of drives that should not enter the sleep mode
• Setting the time interval between 30 seconds and 30 minutes
• Setting the size of the dummy text file between 8 bytes and 32 KB
• Choosing between random or fixed content for the dummy text file

Requirements for using StayAwake:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 (R2)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later

Downloads

The list below contains the latest version of StayAwake:

Contacting Me

You can contact me at rene@slijkhuis.org. Please put StayAwake in the subject line.

Screenshots

Configuring StayAwake

Changing the advanced settings of StayAwake

The disk activity of StayAwake in the Windows Resource Monitor

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