Does this drive dock power down the drives after a period of inactivity? If not, what do you do? Manually turn off the power?
1813862
It does not spin the drives down. However, you should be able to set your OS to spin down drives on inactivity. It probably wouldn't be a good idea for the device to be able to do this independently of the computer.
1813863
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
1813864
I only use the dock to do a backup from my laptop so I power it up when I begin and then turn it off at the end. I've never left it on long enough to see if the drives power down after a period of inactivity. Sorry I can't be of more help.
1813865
I have the single hard disk enclosure from StarTech. Yes, that one does spin the HDD down after about 10 mins. of inactivity. So, this should do it too! I verified this by plugging unit into my router (Tomato) USB port as well as my desktop's (NUC). I used WD RED NAS hard disk.
1813866
It does not shut down after a period of inactivity. I scanned a faulty hard drive for 2 weeks straight and it never shut down. You have to power it down manually.
147031
I have a 2012 mac mini running OS 10.8.5 and the 2TB version of this and it works but it seems to go to sleep frequently telling me in the midst of working on something that I disconnected it improperly. That's been a frequent annoyance as it mens I have to start over or stop everything to wake it back up again and usually re-do what I was working on. I have not lost any data and it seems to work fine as a hard drive but I never have this problem with the Seagate HD.
2173426
I have two of these. Yes, they put the drives to sleep after a few minutes of disuse. I believe the amount of time before they sleep is adjustable. The D-Link web site allows you to download the user manual, if you wish to loo it up.
259038
i do not recommend buying a USB powered Hub for external drives. Buy the one with external power. The USB powered one will turn off your HD sometimes and it is annoying esp if you are downloading files.
385410
There is no power switch on the 3 TB drive. The disk will, however, spin down when the host machine is off.
680715
The hub will NOT work with out power. I tried it out with one USB drive and it will not read the drive until AC is added to the unit.
560310
I believe some of Buffalo external drives have the auto-power-on/off feature. You can also use one of those smart power strips...
17350
No on off switch, but goes to sleep 15 minutes after its used. Mine is connected to a Synology server via USB 3.0. It backs up every night at 1 am, so have not see it actually "on" in quite a while. Back ups run just fine and the log shows they are all there daily with no errors. Now the reason it is asleep is due to a setting in the Synology software. I could have it on all the time, but why? If I manually access the drive thru the Synology server it comes right up with no issue, AND is fast! Thats the best part. I would buy another if I needed one, no problem.
1252823
There is only one power switch. You could pull the drives out just slightly, so they are disconnected, but that's not what you're looking for. I don't know if they have a product with the feature you're looking for.
1481079
The drive spins down according to your computers power settings (as all usbs will) but it never turns off.While spinning its not very noisy (you won't hear it in an office) but its not silent.I'm pretty sure its got wd green cavier as the drive.
1766109
The problem with the henge dock is that you need to connect your laptop while it is turned on. This creates a power surge that can damage the laptop. If you turn off the laptop, you have to disconnect it from the dock, turn it back on, and then re-connect it to the dock thus creating another opportunity for power surge damage. In my opinion the design of the dock is flawed.
385411
No, there is no power switch. Because the drive has its own power, I believe the drive won't shutdown even when the system is off. But, it will spin down.
1071261
I personally had problems with the unit and disconnected from my system. My two systems are tied together with a 2 port KVM switch. If I remember correctly - one of the disks would go to sleep.
23971
Try going to "System Preferences" and select "Energy Saver". Uncheck the box that says "Put Hard Disks to Sleep When Possible". That seems like a great thing which will help you save power, but from my experience it just causes issues with external hard drives. Hope this fixes things for you.
2076446
This happened to me, hence my returning it and going with another drive.I simply unplugged then replugged the drive's USB cable, which made the drive eject the disc. You can also unplug the drive, put your air to sleep, then, with the air open, replug the drive. Failing that, you can look online at fora discussing this problem - there are commands you can try with your air; i didn't have to, so I can't speak to them.Good luck!
817426
Looks like the drive is set up to go to "sleep" after a period of time. That affects a lot of operations, and there's no direct fix for it.
475151
USB Drives don't have the capability to sleep, unless the unit turns itself off, it would be impossible to send the hardware signal to sleep the drive. They've mentioned the unit turns off but in my experience it turns off until you turn it back on again by pressing the button, it's not the "sleep until accessed" that you get with eSata/Sata drives.