Questions about sleeping external hdd / solution needed

[Torey]

I have 3 external HDD's that I never want to sleep. They have a built in feature that puts them to sleep no matter the power option settings in Windows. I read somewhere that this batch file will create a .txt document and delete it every couple of minutes but it doesn't seem to be working.

 

DIM fso, File
Do While 1>0
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set File = fso.CreateTextFile("E:\empty.txt", True)
File.Close
WScript.Sleep 250000
Loop

 

I lowered the time to 200,000 and set it to all 3 of my drives, but whenever I open my external HDD's so far it shows an empty text on only one of the 3, I opened task scheduler and set up one task to open all 3 of the batch files for each of the drives, could it possibly be that I have one task for all 3 of them or am I missing something.

 

Any help would be great, thanks.

[Excon]

Why don't you want them to spin down? It greatly enhances there life.

[Torey]

Why don't you want them to spin down? It greatly enhances there life.

I access them quite often and it drives me nuts waiting for them to come back up. Also does it even? I thought it was mostly a power savings feature. If the feature saves even a year of a 5-10 year cycle I could care less. Be obsolete by then anyway.