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Yes, I am curious about this too, for energy consumption. Because the attached hard drive to Pogoplug is on 24/7, I'd like to make sure that it is being powered down appropriately, believing it is idle as when it is attached via USB.
Allow an attached Drive to Spin Down when not in use for a specific time or some configurable method. Then you can add that the pogoplug is conscious of the environmental impact that we are having on the earth's surface :)
August 14, 2009 11:28 AM
August 14, 2009 12:18 PM
The HD I have plugged into PogoPlug spins down when idle. It's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB SATA.
September 18, 2009 2:02 PM
I agree 100%. I just got my pogoplug. I logged on to this forum to find out why the heck my external hard drive (WD MyBook 500GB) is never spinning down when plugged into PogoPlug. It always spins down when not in use when connected to my computer USB. If there are no plans to fix the fact that PogoPlug doesn't seem to let my haddrive rest, I'm going to send this puppy back. I don't care to have my harddrive's motor burned, waste electricity, listen to its incessant racket and see it constantly flashing light. Blugh!
September 22, 2009 5:28 PM
My 1TB Simpletech drive spins down. Must be something with your particular drives, because mine spins down all the time.
September 23, 2009 2:59 PM
bcpogo said: My 1TB Simpletech drive spins down. Must be something with your particular drives, because mine spins down all the time.You mean it must be something with the particular combination of my drive AND Pogoplug. As I stated, when I plug my external hard drive into my computer (either my desktop or laptop) it spins down when not in use with no problem. So, Pogoplug is not blameless here.
October 13, 2009 7:56 AM
Has anyone figured out how to fix this? Really seems to be a problem that will shorten life expectancy of attached USB drives. With 2TB of storage, this will shred the drive in no time ... could someone from the development team please review this and offer suggestion on how it could be fixed?
October 14, 2009 12:05 PM
it might be the usb drive you are using, i am using a wd my passport, a nexstar cx enclosure, and a seagate freeagent go, and each one spins down after inactivity. then when i use the pogoplug to access the drive it take a second for it to spin up.
also keep in mind that the pogoplug generates thumbnails for your photos and videos and so forth, so you may get some activity after an upload or after plugging in your drive.
October 14, 2009 12:49 PM
keith, the 2TB WD spins down fine when attached to PC or other plug ... so I don't think it is the drive.
October 18, 2009 6:27 PM
I am having a problem with my drive not spinning down too. What I have found, from lots of experiments is this:
- If I have the Drive App running on a machine which is running, the Pogo attached drive will never spin down.
- If I do NOT have the Drive App running, or the machine I run it on is off, then the Pogo attached drive WILL spin down once it has not been accessed via the web interface in awhile.
Unfortunately, I really could care less about the web interface, but I do like the Drive client. If I have the drive app on my machines, that means that the drive will spin continuously, and that will kill it. Most personal drives are not intended to spin 24/7 like server grade drives. I'm less concerned about the energy as I am with life of the drive. My Media Center PC is always on, while my laptop and my wife's laptop are up and down a lot. The constantly running Media Center will mean that the Pogo drive will spin forever, even when it is not in use (besides the Drive Client essentially acting as a keep alive with frequent pings to maintain the status). Grrrrrr......
October 19, 2009 11:15 AM
@bristolview
Are you running the drive client in single-drive or multi-drive mode?
Also, what OS are you running?
October 19, 2009 11:41 AM
@bristolview
The development team has had another thought; what applications are you running on your client? One of these apps may be accessing the data on your Pogoplug drive.
October 19, 2009 11:57 AM
So was able to SSH into my PogoPlug. Top shows 81% or greater of CPU being used by /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/hbplug ... Attached 2TB WD USB drive is constantly spinning. Screen capture below.
October 19, 2009 3:12 PM
OS is Vista
Multimode
What Apps:
When using the Drive Client, I expect that when directly accessing data on the drive the drive will be Spun up, and it is. Lots of apps, Media Player, office to work on files, etc. when not in use means no apps with open files located on the Pogo Drive, no file explorer windows open on the Pogo Drive, nothing. I also had no apps obviously hitting the drive, no streaming, and no virus, spyware or indexing apps running. Essentially, nothing should have been pinging the drive.
October 19, 2009 3:36 PM
can you try the same test in single-drive mode? put the app in single-drive mode, and restart the app. then close all explorer windows and let it idle. do you still get the same behavior?
October 20, 2009 7:45 PM
Same results when using Multidrive or not.
Any PC with Drive Client App = Drive constantly spinning
No PC up with Drive Client App = Drive will power down when idle (Spin up with web interface access, Spin down once idle for a bit)
October 21, 2009 12:57 PM
Trying a different drive this evening, in case it is an issue with this drive. It does spin down when idle with USB direct connection to the PC though.
November 16, 2009 1:10 AM
I'm having the same problem. 1TB Hammer Morespace drive, single mode, client is Mac, don't have the software running. No apps reading data off this drive, uploaded content to it yesterday that should have indexed by now (although I don't see why I need thumbnails/index, etc. for this - I don't intend to use the website to access; just want remote access to the drive...)
Drive simply won't spin down, although I know it does when not attached to Pogoplug.
January 2, 2010 5:01 PM
updated: January 2, 2010 5:04 PM
Same here. Lacie drive (Seagate disk inside). Never goes idle if connected to the Plug. It will not go idle even if my PC is off and no access through web.
Goes idle if connected directly to PC.
April 30, 2010 10:02 PM
I have a Hitachi G drive and it never spins down no matter what I am trying. Any suggestions. I use a mac.
June 22, 2010 5:14 PM
I am a new Pogoplug owner and I have the same issue, but there's a lot more heat! TEN Seagate Free Agent desktops with lots of video on them, and they never spin down. If I connect the same drives directly to my Mac, they stop after a while, and spin up when called for.
It makes sense to me that you would do the equivalent of a KEEP-ALIVE to maintain communication between the pogoplug hardware and the service.pogoplug.com server, but there's no need to keep the drives moving if nothing is actually reading and writing the data.
The drives are not all at the same firmware revision, and they are all formatted for Mac.
Anything new on this?
July 3, 2010 6:16 PM
I don't know if this is the solution for everyone. I was able to get my drive to sleep by turning off the thumbnail generation and media transcoding in the settings. I think this keeps the system accessing your drive slowly.
July 31, 2010 7:55 AM
Dear Pogoplug team, I am thinking about buying one, but this is an important issue to me. I do not want a spining drive next to me all the time. Is there any chance you can generate a checklist or a lists of products with which you did not encounter a problem?
In the pogoplug engine, is there maybe a way to tell you what is not working? Like the "fix it" approach of MS. This way you could collect information about the hardware not running as supposed to.
Thank you!
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