I have two laptops (Windows 10) and a mini-PC (Windows 11) with external USB hard drives connected. The "Turn off hard disk after" setting is set to 10 minutes on all devices, but the drives turn off at different times on each machine. One shuts off around 2 minutes, another at 3, another at 6...
device management
energy settings
external storage
harddriveshutdownhardware issues
mini-pc
operating systems
performance issues
power settings
rdp sessions
sleep timer
system configuration
system updates
troubleshooting
usb harddrives
user experience
version differences
windows 10
windows 11