Digital Heaven has released a sweet little freeware app for Mac users that might just save your sanity. Disksomnia is an application that keeps your hard drives from spinning down and sleeping, keeping you ready to edit at a moment’s notice! (just as soon as you stop procrastinating and step away from the fridge)

In theory, unchecking this option in the System Preferences > Energy Saver pane should stop disks from going to sleep. However some disks ignore this setting and will still go to sleep if they haven’t been accessed for a few minutes.

Disksomnia solves this problem by giving external disks a gentle poke every five minutes if Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express is running.

You can snag your copy of Disksomnia here. Hint: Click the “Get Freeware” link.