Hello, does this have a power switch for the drives?
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Nope, just a mount. It's nice enough if you're not going to be changing them out all the time.
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No, just a rack with a fan on the front. How you power the fan and drives is up to the owner to figure out.
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No, it is just a shell/shelf. Each individual hard disk connect to their power plug and interface cable. No back plane.
1955885
There is a separate power plug. It has a sata interface and a power connection on the back.
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These switches are for the power connection only and have no relevance to data. The data connection does not run through these switches. Your data connection depends on the hard drive and the motherboard (or SATA card) to which they are connected.
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No on off switch. There is a sleep setting on the WD Drive Utilities software that comes with the drive. It is 30 minutes default sleep mode but can be set to other times.
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Yes it does, though i think it's an HDD dependent issue and not related to the dock. I am using WD 5400rpm Green series , and energy saving features work like a charm, dunno about other drives, i think it shouldn't be an issue. Anyhow, the dock has gotten individual power and eject buttons for each of the drives in case u need manual control
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Yes. In fact, it doesn't have an "on" switch, just boots when you apply power. You can shut it down via a menu option.
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Yes there's a power switch on the front. Be careful though. Mine only lasted a couple months
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No it doesn't have power switch. You will have to unplug it when you turn of ignition.
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Yes but not "Green" harddrives. Didn't realize this until I tried to get one to work.
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Ron....no, the hard drive is a plug-n-play, no external power source needed.
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Not to be too insulting, but have you made sure it's on? It does have a small "on" button, unlike some other drives that don't have an on/off switch.
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No, it has three power connectors for IDE hard drives or CD-rom & DVD drives. If you need more than three connectors, as I did, you will need to purchase a "Y" connector to get an additional power connector.
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Product itself does not. I thought it did not work, then a website said attached drive must be set as master. I moved jumper on drive to make it master and the product worked. No documentation, jumpers or cables, but IDE to SATA or SATA to IDE "ports" are clearly marked. Don't forget to power 1) drive and 2) adapter (which uses a floppy drive power connection).
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I don't believe the box has any internal power save feature, but it does pass any OS sent power saving commands through to the drive. So if your OS has a spin down timer configured in its power options, then the external drive will share that spin down function and turn off and on with the OS requests.
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No, unfortunately it does not. However, there are many inexpensive external drives which can be purchased here on Amazon. It's so thin, though, I really don't miss it. And it has a backlit keyboard! (Writing this response on it right now.)
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Yes it does, the cable has 2 USB heads on it to draw extra power if necessary (there is also a 5v socket on the drive where you can plug in a 5v power supply if even that isn't enough)
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There are two usb ports, one for communication, the other for additional power.I thought the same that you did-- where can I get the adaptor. It turns out that the drive works happily on 2 USB connections-- and no power adaptor. Good luck!