Xbox One and External Hard Drive not going to sleep

Rest assured that it is being looked into

A few suggestions that may help: Try to see if there is a firmware update for drive. The drive should be turning off, however some drives don't handle the request correctly. I know with my older model seagate harddrive, there was actually no way for it to
switch off, if it was plugged in then it was on and i had to unplug it to switch it off

Also, is it happening everytime? Or just ocassionally? I've read that it could be caused due to background functions running on the xbox, like updates/downloads/etc, in which case it'd need the HD to be on to preform those tasks

I have confirmed this on mine as well. Switched the power mode setting to Energy Saver so the system actually powers down instead of just going into standby and this helped the external to stop.

I did switch it back though because I still want to update on it's own so I don't have to worry about it. But then my system isn't in the room I sleep in, in which case it would probably drive me nuts.

Loading time for games using the external HD is amazing, way faster the internal HD, i just did some test with Watch Dogs...

A dev said in one of the threads in the early access section that MS engineers are thinking of the best way to handle this. Hopefully they'll figure something out.

Hey there, ScottyDoo 560! I'm sorry to see any issues with an external hard drive. This thread is originally over a year old. If you need further assistance after doing the troubleshooting listed in this thread, please post up a new thread detailing what
you're running into and troubleshooting you've completed. This way our community can get you the individual support that works best on the forums.