[SOLVED] External drive disconnects after a while

[williamc99]

Some useful information:
Drive enclosure: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07N48N5GR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Drive: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB
Laptop: Dell XPS 13 7390

Hello

I study Applied Information Technology and I use external storage to store my VMs. Here is my problem: When I am working on my VM in Hyper V, my VM crashes after some time due to the drive disconnecting. Has anyone experienced something similar and have a solution to this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
William Coenen

 

[RealBeast]

Windows 10?
Have you gone into the control panel power options, (open advanced settings by clicking on "change plan setting") and then under USB disable the selective suspend?

I assume that you stay plugged into AC for this sort of work so I would run an aggressive power use when plugged in and disable sleep/hibernate, just use a blank screen saver after some length of time.

 

[williamc99]

Windows 10?
Have you gone into the control panel power options, (open advanced settings by clicking on "change plan setting") and then under USB disable the selective suspend?

I assume that you stay plugged into AC for this sort of work so I would run an aggressive power use when plugged in and disable sleep/hibernate, just use a blank screen saver after some length of time.

Thank you for your reply. I have tried all those things but I can't seem to change the necessary things. I will add some screenshots.

https://imgur.com/a/yfhhdRm

View: https://imgur.com/a/yfhhdRm

 

[RealBeast]

I would specifically look at the USB setting which sometimes is hidden, but can be found like THIS.

 

[williamc99]

Windows 10?
Have you gone into the control panel power options, (open advanced settings by clicking on "change plan setting") and then under USB disable the selective suspend?

I assume that you stay plugged into AC for this sort of work so I would run an aggressive power use when plugged in and disable sleep/hibernate, just use a blank screen saver after some length of time.

Thank you! You were of great help.

 

[RealBeast]

Thanks, Happy 2021!