BugCatcher
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Hi, couldn't find how to report the bug officially, so I'll post here. Just found an annoying issue which may stop me from using Parallels Desktop. I have 2 hard drives in my 2011 BTO iMac - one is SSD and it's primary, another one is Hitachi 2 Tb used for the data. I set the Mac Os X power management to send the disks to sleep after 3 minutes, but it was not working as intended - the secondary disk was starting to spin again very frequently, even if it's unmounted.
Finally after Googling on issue I found other users tell the reason is Parallels daemon, constantly running in Mac OS X even if Parallels is not running at all. It checks something on HDDs every some minutes and does not check whether the drive is sleeping. so it wakes the drive up.
I uninstalled Parallels and my issue has gone - the disk is sleeping and not waiking up without reasons, like before.
That's important for me, cause Hitachi drive is not silent when ON and a bit annoying.
So to the moderator - please forward this issue to developers, I think it's very easy to fix. I hope to enjoy Parallels again after this issue will be fixed.
Finally after Googling on issue I found other users tell the reason is Parallels daemon, constantly running in Mac OS X even if Parallels is not running at all. It checks something on HDDs every some minutes and does not check whether the drive is sleeping. so it wakes the drive up.
I uninstalled Parallels and my issue has gone - the disk is sleeping and not waiking up without reasons, like before.
That's important for me, cause Hitachi drive is not silent when ON and a bit annoying.
So to the moderator - please forward this issue to developers, I think it's very easy to fix. I hope to enjoy Parallels again after this issue will be fixed.