Auto shut-down time? Keep hub power on, computer off, individual drive blue lights out, main blue light on, drives keep humming, even though not used.
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When the hub is on and the computer is off, the attached devices are still being powered. The blue lights are to indicate that the port is in use. You have to manually turn the hub off to cut power to your attached devices.
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The enclosure has it's own power supply, so once you turn it on, the drive will stayed powered on regardless of whether the computer is on or off.
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All hard disk drives have spinning platters, bearings, and other moving parts, all subject to mechanical wear. Your external drive will last longer if you un-plug it while not in use. Windows 7 will eventually shut down ALL HDD's attached to the computer that are not being used; both internal and external, however, this could take about 20 minutes or so. It is best to unplug your external HDD. Steve (Electrical Engineer)
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i believe it is because the "on" switch is still in the "on" position. the drive stays on until it is removed from the desktop and switched off.
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I've had mine ever since they came out early on, and Its has been turned on ever since I purchased it. Through out my years of experience, turning the hard drives off/on is more harm full than just leaving it on. I would say that my WD My Book 2TB has been on since I originally plugged it up. Do not by Seagate or Matrox. WD never gives up on me or at work. However, connect it up to a UPS black out , power strikes, and brown outs will hurt the drive worse than anything else you can allow to happen. Good Luck
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When the computer is shutdown, yes the light stays on. When the actual power switch is turned off, then no it does not stay on
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I have never wanted to disconnect the blue led because I like to know when the drive is active. Sorry, I'm not much help. I really like the drive, It does everything I want it to do. It's quiet and it runs cool.
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If the LEDs lite and all connections are done and still no info come from it or goes through then it is the hub! It will stop like that. One of mine did! My other one still work.
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Yes, behind the red slider. It slowly blinks when the drive is plugged in and idle.
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The lights stay on as long as it's plugged-in and the computer is turned-on. The lights can be shut-off or controlled by a thumb-wheel that's on the cord.(Side note: I was amazed by how sharp the picture is! It also needed no additional drivers (I have a Windows 7 machine)
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All hard disk drives have spinning platters, bearings, and other moving parts, all subject to mechanical wear. Your external drive will last longer if you un-plug it while not in use.Windows 7 will eventually shut down ALL HDD's attached to the computer that are not being used; both internal and external, however, this could take about 20 minutes or so. It is best to unplug your external HDD.Steve (Electrical Engineer)
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no, when you plug it into the computer the blue light comes on for about a second then out. have tried several computers but no luck. Please replace
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That's totally dependant on how much power your pulling from the battery. If you're using a 600 watt power supply and running a monitor and external souund system you'll probably get about a minute or two. If you connect the ups to your computer with the supplied usb cable it can start the shut down automatically. Also whenever you connect the ups to your computer it'll tell how much power you're using and how much on battery run time you'd have. Hopefully this will help your decision process.
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It has blue light when you plug the USB cable with the computer, and it turns off if you unplug it.
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I does automatically shut off. After owning it a couple of months, I find the "computer disk" noise it makes before shutting off wakes me up. It runs about 6 hours but I find it too noisy when turned on and just before it shuts off.
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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.
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Been using it for some time and haven't had that problem. I have 5 drives, three which are on all the time and two which I switch between between power offs. Have never had a drive fry.