pupbiru, 28 days ago

pretty easily to test without getting bogged down in the weeds if you’re comfortable in terminal:

<span style="color:#323232;">cd <drive path>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">while true; do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  date > test_file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  sleep 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span>

this will loop infinitely and write the the disk every 10s until you cancel, so should keep the disk awake… of course, if that works you can spend time figuring out how to keep the disk awake, or how to make VLC load less into RAM