PingHD Alternatives
PingHD is described as 'An opensource, cross-platform, and standalone GUI tool to keep your hard drive(s) alive based on time interval you choose'. There are three alternatives to PingHD for Windows. The best alternative is Prevent Disk Sleep, which is free. Other great apps like PingHD are KeepAliveHD (Free, Open Source) and NoSleepHD (Free, Open Source).
- Your machine's hard disks enter into sleep mode during periods of inactivity to allow for system life-extending operations such as disk cooling.
- KeepAliveHD is a simple program which prevents your hard drive to go into automatic standby mode. It works by writing a small text file to your external drive every few minutes.
- NoSleepHD is a simple program which writes an empty text file every few minutes to your external hard disk drive(s) to keep it from going into auto-sleep mode.