When used with a Mac, does the big2 power down when the Mac is powered down or in sleep mode?
809904
Yes, it does. I have mine plugged into the Thunderbolt port and also into my battery backup. When I power on the iMac the LaCie comes on, when I power the iMac off the LaCie shuts down.
809905
It seems to power down when powered down. The light goes off and the drives stop spinning. I'm not sure about sleep mode, my computer is either off or being used. Hope that helps.
971141
Whenever the unit gains power back it defaults to a power on state, which if memory serves right just turns on the last built in macro of the unit that you were using the last time it got powered off. Hope this helps.
1900058
Paired it with Mac Mini, some times disconnects if idle for a long time (15+ min) but switching it off and back on again fixes the issue
497213
I used mine on a MacBook. It did disconnect whenever the system went to sleep. I contacted the company and they had a firmware update although it on worked on Windows. Once I updated the firmware I did not have any issues. Worked flawlessly.
2279744
Have not had this issue. Biggest issue I have is my ASUS laptop recognizing the Anker hub on the first start-up and my external monitors working. Seems no problem waking from sleep mode, only from shutdown mode.
2159679
No, while they may go into a sleep mode I've always found them to be responsive even after the haven't been accessed for a long time. Have never had one power down when using it.
1152911
It goes in sleep mode when the lights aren't lit up. Make sure to disconnect your USB cord.
844
It doesn't have a sleep mode, it has a green power management feature that stops the hardrive from spinning constantly when not in use.I usually just turn it off when I am not using it.I really just bought it to keep an old IDE Hardrive from sitting around and installed UBUNTU on it.But it works great.
1855488
it does not recover from sleep as fast as osx. in osx in comes back as if the display was just off. you open the lid and your workspace just appears. in windows 7 you have to hit the power button to come out of sleep and it first shows the windows flag animation first then goes to log in screen. however windows 7 is very very speedy with the 1.4 and 2 gb ram version. i am not however trying to open 8 gb sized adobe files or decoding movies. just regular usage it feels like a standard 2.0 ghz machine.
973628
Doesn't interfere with sleeping or waking on my Mac Pro. And sometimes I boot into OSX 10.9 or OSX 10.7, and even into Windows 8 using bootcamp. No problems.
1768774
The mini pro cannot bus power off the esata port, only USB will power it. It does come with a special USB power cable, so one end into a USB port on your mac and the other into the dc power input on the MiniPro and bingo you have power and then use it with the esata cable. Its not that neat and tidy but you wont have to carry the power supply around as long as you have one USB port available when you want to use the MiniPro and works fine when th eMBP is running on it's battery. I like it and the speeds are very good. I have a 750 evo in mine and it is the boot drive for the mac pro using the usb power cable. This way it turns itself on when I boot the computer and off when I shut down. I would have to manually turn it on and off. Be aware that it may not like being put to sleep but it's an ssd so sleeping is not necessary. I tried sleeping the mac pro and the samsung would wake ok after a few minutes, but if I left it sleeping say 20 minutes the samsung would not wake or mount and I would have to reboot. It varies depending on which version of OS and which esata card you have but it could just be the samsung has its own auto off. I asked the guys at MiniPro and they said the enclosure has no sleep firmware going on. Long winded answer :)
2162185
It has an eject key, just like all genuine Apple keyboards do. Mine works very well, and when used in conjunction with the option and command keys, it will trigger the sleep command. Some other manufacturers have the key as well, but they don't always function, in which case you must go up to the drop-down menu to eject with the mousie.
1765163
Yes, you can say that. You'll need to install a program on the computer (like InsomniaX for Mac) to prevent your mac from going to sleep when closing the lid.
44628
Using it with my MacPro, power to the outlets remains on while the computer is sleeping.
1133937
Good question. Depends on device. Had a problem with my bluray player not switching when I turned it off. Found a setting in the menu which completely shuts it down and fixed the issue. I also just updated the firmware and it now switches off the Apple TV when I put it to sleep. It didn't work before the update. Everything works good now including the DirecTv gene I have hooked up to it. Also, it helps to use the correct order when booking up components that don't sleep. You can set the switch to scan on disconnect or just turned on.
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I am trying to use it with a Mac Pro. I can make it work but there are issues. The mac won't recognize it at startup. I have to unhook it and reconnect after startup. It works fine then, if I just put the mac to sleep its fine at wake up.
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Not sure since I keep the mac on basically 24/7 but I just keep it on during the week and turn off during the weekend... no problems so far