Whoa, whoa, whoa... safe sleep, wha?
Edit: Never mind. Just read that article. Whew, some nice tips in there. Safe sleep disabled, and I even killed the sudden motion sensor too.
Incidentally, that article refers a lot to
Carbon Copy which is free in the Mac App Store right now (
)... Is making a disk image with this better than just using Time Machine (using the second drive as storage)?