My Book Essential Sleeps When Connected To PS3

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Everytime I connect My Book Essential 1.5 TB HDD to my PS3 and watch a movie that’s on there, sometimes the HDD sleeps and I have to wait for it to wake up again. Sometimes a movie might play fine for 45 minutes or even 80 minutes, and then movie file exists and the drive sleeps. It then wakes up again.

It’s pretty annyoing. It happens as well when the drive is connected an not in use.

I installed SmartWare when I connected it to the PC and I noticed the time was set for 30 minutes for sleep. I changed this to never, but not sure if that will fix it since the PS3 doesn’t recognise the partition SmartWare is on.

I’m testing it now to see if it would sleep, but does anyone have any ideas? 

It still sleeps even after the changes were made to SmartWare.

I was reading another forum, something about updating firmware? Would that help? If so, do I need to back up my data?

Looks like I’m alone with this problem **bleep** it! :cry:

No replies! 

Maybe you should try contacting WD’s Technical Support about this. You can do so either by phone or email.

To Contact WD for Technical Support
http://support.wdc.com/contact/index.asp?lang=en

Thanks, I’ll do that.