External hard drive

[KAB]

221 or 211?

There is no 221 and the 222 is not EHD compatible.

 

[navychop]

There is no 221 and the 222 is not HD compatible.

You mean not EHD compatible?

 

[KAB]

You mean not EHD compatible?

Beat me to it.

 

[KKlare]

Seagate drives have a utility that you can turn that function off with. Just hook up the drive to your pc and run the utility to switch off sleep mode.

Yes but then you lose the reduction of wear that comes with the sleep mode. The drive just stays on all the time.
-Ken

 

[sratson]

Yes but then you lose the reduction of wear that comes with the sleep mode. The drive just stays on all the time.
-Ken

Not that big of a deal since hard drives are designed for a MTBF of >100,000 hours... the sleep mode is more for energy savings.

 

[sratson]

Think you can only do that before Dish reformats the drive. I may be wrong.

It is a bios trigger in the firmware for drive, nothing to do with the contents of the drive.