Cannot Prevent Drives From Sleeping - Yes Put Hard Drives 2 Sleep UNCHECKED

Sorry to post a tired old subject, but all threads seem to discuss putting the drives to sleep. I need the opposite. I edit with Final Cut Pro and my external striped drives are "driving" me crazy because they keep going to sleep every few minutes.
Yes, I have unchecked the box in Energy Saver. No luck. Any help or re direct to threads covering this will be appreciated!

Ooooh!! Gotcha. When I read your response, my mind went immediately to software. It's a Western Digital drive (actually, there are ten 2TB drives connected and four 1TB internal drives).
What I did not mention originally (maybe should have) is that I did not have this problem with the same configuration before. All drives stayed awake all the time. But recently permission and drive lock conditions forced me to blow everything completely out and re install OS from scratch (really sucked!)
Now, the uncheck doesn't work. The only thing different in set up I'm doing is I allow the monitor to power down after 15 minutes. I'm going to turn that setting off and see if MAYBE the OS is somehow interpreting that and associating the sleep function with it. Although, the drives still go to sleep right when I'm sitting here working even when the monitor doesn't.
I don't know.

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