Stop Premiere from accessing external hdd

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September 21, 2018
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I'm not 100% sure if this is a Premiere issue or a Mac issue. I use a Samsung 1TB SSD over Thunderbolt as a working drive. It's blazingly fast. Everything I've checked in Premiere points to this drive (scratch disks etc). I also have a WD MyBook Duo I use as external storage/backup, but I do NOT edit off of this drive. I've noticed though that Premiere accesses the drive and it slows things down, sometimes causing stuttering in preview, or even just hesitating before opening up a project while the MyBook spins up.

I've gone into Mac energy settings and unchecked "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" and also checked "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off." Here's an example...I'll have a project open in Premiere, but am doing something else for some time...then I go back to the project to do work and the MyBook kicks in, starts spinning up, and I can't access the project until it fires up (usually a couple of seconds).

Anyone know why this is happening? How can I make it so Premiere completely ignores this drive?

external harddrive

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Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hello @carloa5872139,

Thanks for the question. It sounds like you have a slow drive gumming up the works. My advice is to go to Project Settings > Scratch Disks and make sure that the WD drive is not among any of the selections there. That should prevent any access going on there. Let us know if the advice helped you.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

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Meg The Dog

Inspiring

Can you unmount the drive while working in Premiere?

Also, I use an app called Disksomnia:

‎Disksomnia on the Mac App Store

which pings the drives to prevent them from spinning down.

MtD