In energy settings..should hard drive be set to never

I was advised by Mac Pro Apple support ..That the hard drives and Mac should never sleep..thats its not good to be interuppted while editing..
I also have the display set to never plus i put a screen saver in
Can anyone help

It's a good idea to stop the hard drives sleeping when you are editing.
The problem does not usually occur whilst you are actively editing but whilst you are rendering.
Under certain circumstances rendering can take many hours.
If you have left the computer alone to allow it to render, the computer will think that nobody is using it and will go to sleep thereby stopping the rendering process.,

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