External hard drive, on or off?

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JAF

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• Jan 27, 2009

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Is everyone turning them on and off as needed, or leaving them on?

I have 650gb WD internal drive in an external case. Will this drive go into sleep mode automatically? I didn't know if the reciever (722) controled sleep mode or the hard drive did this itself.

Thanks

 

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• Jan 27, 2009

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I dont use mine very often. I transfer things we have watched but want to keep onto it. Because of this I just disconnect it when I power down after transferring and only reconnect it when I know I want to transfer something.

 

MikeD-C05

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• Jan 27, 2009

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I have my external hard drive plugged into the back of my a/v receiver. When it gets turned off so does the ext. hard drive.

 

Ilya

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My WD is on all the time. But it goes to sleep when not used.

 

navychop

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I leave the main one on, and have a secondary one that I don't have much faith in that I only turn on when in use.

 

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DishSubLA

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I don't access mine very often, so I turn them off. However, I were accessing them everyday, I would probably leave them on.

 

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Cokeswigga

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JAF said:

Is everyone turning them on and off as needed, or leaving them on?

I have 650gb WD internal drive in an external case. Will this drive go into sleep mode automatically? I didn't know if the reciever (722) controled sleep mode or the hard drive did this itself.

Thanks

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I have a WD My Book 750. I leave it on all the time

It seems to spin down when it's not being used, so I leave it on all the time

 

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theoak

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• Jan 28, 2009

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I have a WD 1TB My Book Essential ... when it is in use the blue light flashes. Otherwise, the blue light is steady. If that means the drive actually shuts down though ... I am not sure ... but it does seem to know when it is in use.

 

fredp

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• Jan 29, 2009

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I turn mine off. It may not be very much juice to leave it on but its just the way I was raised. As one who remembers the BS from the early 70's energy crisis with electric companies saying it cost more money to turn off a lightbulb...