August 27, 2009 2:35 PM

This would be an awesome addition ... Any progress on this request? 

September 26, 2009 7:00 PM

Pogoplug should be able to identify periods of inactivity for the hard drive and should be able to put it into sleep mode . This will enhance the life of the drive by a long way, this feature is a must as far as I am concerned.

Currently, I have to unplug the power on my seagate extreme 2 TB drive because it keeps spinning at all times and runs hot. Heat is the enemy of hard drives.

April 8, 2010 2:02 AM

This is a must-have feature.
But it would be nice to have the option per drive, so that tou don't have to power down SSD an other flash-drives.

April 10, 2010 7:08 PM updated: March 11, 2011 9:26 AM

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April 11, 2010 1:22 AM

rohan_b79 said:

Had I been making a device like the pogoplug, the power management would be have been on my high priority list....

..... It should not take a programmer longer than a few hours tops, to put in a code for this. ..........

Untill I get this feature, my pogoplug just sits disconnected called into action on need basis, and then as well itry not to turn it on because of the hassle.

I am also surprised that this is not a standard common sense option. Power management is a Must have. I also am leaving my inactive until I need it, And quite frankly... that sux

April 15, 2010 1:04 AM

Yes, please add a

June 22, 2010 5:33 PM

I am new to popplug, and so far I like it a lot, but this overheating constant spinning drive issue will eventually catch up to me. I use the pogoplug drives to steam music to a remote location, but i don't use all the drives I have physically connected. if I eject the drive from the pogoplug web page, will it stop spinning, and can I subsequently reattach it without the need to power cycle the whole business?

June 23, 2010 5:58 AM

OK, here's my 3rd and 4th cents: The drive manufacturers (in my case, Seagate) thought that allowing the drive to turn off - spin down, go to sleep - was important enough to design into the product, and in fact make it the default behavior. It should work that way.

I have only had my Pogoplug for a few days, so I have still not been able to conclusively rule out some other process like Windows Search or Google Desktop indexing the file system, or maybe Norton or Macafee or some other monitor. I have both Mac and Windows machines on the local LAN and both use the Pogo desktop clients, so there might be some interaction there. Since the drives do spin down when connected directly to the Mac there has to be something different, and I'd like to understand it.

June 23, 2010 7:16 AM

The drives are 4 Seagate Free Agent Desktops in the 500-750 gig range (black case, vertical orientation, solid orange stripe illuminated on the edge, integrated base (cannot be detached)) and 6 of the more recent silver case Free Agent Desktops which all match at 1.5 TB. This latter group has an illuminated Seagate swirl logo and are designed to be either horizontal or vertical with a clip-on base if you want the vertical orientation. Each of these two groups is plugged into a powered 7-port USB 2.0 hub, and the two hubs plugged into pogo.

June 23, 2010 8:24 AM

Chris,

The application is just my collection of old TiVo'd TV and movies. I think I am time-shifting watching them to my retirement years! Seriously, now that storage is under a dollar per gigabyte (and I am old enough to know that is amazing) it's actually cheaper to park video files on USB drives than it is to burn them to plastic.

USB is a reasonable technology for what I now think of as medium-scale storage (tens of TB). The protocol supports 127 devices on each host, any of which can be another hub. You will run out of bandwidth if you try to use too many of them at the same time, but for this purpose chances are the maximum use would be writing one or two files and streaming HD video from a 3rd drive. You will also run into trouble if the devices cannot draw enough current. UBS says 500 ma/device is the maximum draw, but an unpowered hub can supply that much to only one of the devices connected to it. I don't know for sure but I suspect the there is just one "host" inside the Pogoplug, with 4 connectors. In my case each of those goes to a powered hub, and each of the drives is self powered too.

Still with all these drives (getting back on topic) the back of my rack gets pretty warm, and thus just wasteful when I'm not actually reading/writing data.

July 3, 2010 6:19 PM

I dont understand why "Mr. bidmead" vehemently opposes the Idea obasic power management for the pogoplug connected external HDD.

The attitude of this type where you just say no it can't be done is not right. Its a very important feature and merely saying its not possible is a answer of a person who isn't bothered, but others are. So if you dont have a solution atleast dont keep writing your mind saying it can't be done. Just sit quitely, if its not your problem.

You are like a Washingtona politician who know of problems but don't make amends to fix them.

July 31, 2010 3:05 AM updated: July 31, 2010 3:08 AM

I have a 640GB 2.5 inch Samsung USB-powered HDD attached to my Pogoplug, and my drive spins down after a couple of minutes of inactivity. Perhaps the drive itself has to support this feature? If you are worried about power consumption and/or heat then a 2.5 inch drive may be the best option.