On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Acrobat as well as Phase One's Capture One, and a
few other things. My
performance issues are strictly related to RAM and Disk I/O. Actually the
main performance problem is these **** HD's that go to sleep on their own
when not being used, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off that
behavior!
Don't know if it works on OSX, but on linux the hdparm utility lets you
turn that off. The -B, -S and -Z switches are relevant.
Alexey