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I agree. This would be a great feature to the product and make it more green.
Categories: Hard Drives / Storage
I setup a USB HDD drive with 750GB this weekend, works great. A bit slow but acceptable. Wondering if there is a way to power down the drive remotely when not in use to save energy consumption and life of the disk. Eject/unmount, and power down manually seems to be hassle.
Works like a laptop drive which powers down when not in use would be ideal.
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June 29, 2009 8:48 PM
updated: June 29, 2009 8:51 PM
This isn't part of the product but see this link:
http://seongbae.blogspot.com/2009/05/putting-my-hard-disk-to-sleep-on.html
The link is not a step by step but it is possible to have the drive spin down.
June 30, 2009 3:42 PM
ianjb said: This isn't part of the product but see this link: http://seongbae.blogspot.com/2009/05/putting-my-hard-disk-to-sleep-on.html The link is not a step by step but it is possible to have the drive spin down.
Seongbae's blogs are really good, i second that.
Aynway, to the original poster, This is not really a solution(buy another harddrive!) but for others that might want to save power/energy/money. On my end, a killer combination:
10watts = pogoplug+green WD 1TB
Using kill-a-watt. With this, I can literrally be running 24/7. And note that it does automatic spin down via hardware.
regards,
steadph
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