11-18-2012, 01:29 AM
Black wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
[quote=Bosco]
These do not have on/off switches. However, you can hook it up to a power strip and use the switch on the power strip to turn it on/off. That's how I handled the problem with the drive connected to my WDTV Live.
I let my 2 - 1Tb WD's run all the time, in fact I let all my ext. run all the time.
I would rather have backup drives off except during the backing up process. I guess power strip is a possibility, but it would have to be one drive per power strip which gets kind of dumb.
It's been debated many times on here as to whether drive should even be allowed to spin down. I think
it's always kinda split 50/50. My 2Tb Verbatim also runs all the time because it's holding all our movies
and TV series for the AppleTV.
Where I used to work the CNC machine I ran had a 1Gb HD, which is huge for a machine tool built in '99, and
almost every time we had a 3 day weekend it would not spin up. I got desperate one day and remembered
reading about someone lightly tapping on a HD to get it to spin up. So on many occasions I did just
that with the plastic handle of a screwdriver, then we did a quick backup and finally replaced the
drive. The last I heard they replaced the drive again with an SSD.