Hacking Can USB HDDs timeout with USB Loaders?

[Cyber Akuma]

I remember reading long ago that one should not use drives that have power managment or auto-spin/power down the HDD, as that can cause the game the USB loader mounted to crash.... is this even true? I can't find any more information on this, and from what I understand most to all drives nowadays have such power managment and don't have a way to disable it.

Or do modern USB loaders work around this?

 

[GreyWolf]

It depends on the drive. Most of them have a utility that you can use to turn off the power saving.