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Is an external drive supposed to spin down when not in use for a while?
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I have one 3-year old G-Drive Q that spins down when not in use.
And one that is about 5 months old, 1 Tb, but it's always spinning until I eject it.
The latter is probably better so you don't have to wait for the drive to spin up when accessing it.
Others might argue that they want a drive to shut up when they don't use it - spin down and be quiet.
So what's standard? Why the different behavior of two drives from the same company?
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What's your spindown setting in Energy Saver?
Not sure why the two drives would have different behavior.
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It depends on who made the drive enclosure or what chipset it's using.
One might have the disk configured to spin down while idle, the other may not.
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve
What's your spindown setting in Energy Saver?
Not sure why the two drives would have different behavior.
Steve
I unchecked "put drive to sleep when possible."
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Originally Posted by seanc
It depends on who made the drive enclosure or what chipset it's using.
One might have the disk configured to spin down while idle, the other may not.
Both are G-Techs, both use Oxford chipsets, but they were purchased three years apart.
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Could be totally different boards inside, different firmware too.
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Originally Posted by seanc
Could be totally different boards inside, different firmware too.
I see. Well, I'll let my hard drives then behave as they want to. Let's spoil the kids.
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