Keep Drive Spinning
Keep Drive Spinning is a lightweight macOS utility that prevents your Mac's drives from entering sleep mode by periodically accessing them. It's designed for users who rely on continuous drive availability—such as those running background services, network file sharing, or automated tasks that require the drive to remain active at all times. The app runs quietly in the background and helps avoid the delays and potential issues that can occur when drives spin down unexpectedly. It's particularly useful for home servers, always-on machines, and systems where sleep mode would disrupt essential operations.
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1 suggestionKeep Drive Spinning appears to be abandoned. The latest known version is 3.0, and there is no evidence of a native Apple Silicon build or active development. Since this is a simple utility, we recommend switching to a native alternative such as Amphetamine (available free from the Mac App Store), which prevents your Mac from sleeping with fine-grained control over sleep behavior. Amphetamine is actively maintained, fully native on Apple Silicon, and offers more flexibility in managing sleep modes. Alternatively, you can use caffeinate, a built-in macOS command-line tool that prevents sleep—perfect if you're comfortable with Terminal or want to automate it via scripts.
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