Do you need to press the power button and turn on the device every time you turn on your computer? Or does the drive sleep and power on automatically
781723
The drive sits, waiting for action, it's white LED like an oncoming train. It is in a low-power sleep mode when the computer is asleep or off; only the headlight is consuming a tiny amount of power. In a bedroom, you might want to park something opaque in front of it. The drive's performance is first-rate.
781724
Unfortunately, you must power the system off and on for each occasion. It does not have a sleep mode.
781725
If you have a power failure, it must be turned on again when re-powerig-up your computer. For a simple shut-down or restart, you needn't do a thing.
781726
It can sleep and wake automatically, but I always hard power down cause I feel like it will increase the life of it
1706933
You would push in the button "before" boot up/power on. I use this item for cloning one hd to another, or just booting up from a different drive.
973627
So far, for me, when the computer sleeps, it disconnects the drive. When it wakes, it mounts it again. Sometimes, it just disconnects and reconnects for me while I am working. :(
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.
400807
The power button is the source to turn it on. So, yes you have to use the power button. Did you try turning it on then unplugging it and plugging it back in to see if it would turn on that way?? I'm pretty positive though that you have to use the power button.
1712886
You have to open it to turn it on. But if you just put your laptop to sleep, you can wake it up (by moving your mouse or hitting a key on the keyboard) without opening it. With this set-up, I rarely every turn off my laptop.
1368585
On and off button. I manually turn on at bedtime and then manually turn off at wake up. Very happy with the machine. Had similar issue as some others; worked for a couple of nights and then stopped. I called the support phone number and was walked through trouble shooting the problem. Success! No problems nice then and have had the machine for close to a year.
1352457
It should still provide power to the mouse while in sleep mode. As long as your computer itself is turned off, it is powering the USB ports, even though your monitor may be dark. The computer itself is still "on."
1481078
The drive spins down if not used for a while. Both the drive and the power adapter feel cool. According to my Kill-A-Watt the drive draws 3 watts when idle and about 10 W when spinning/seeking. It's too bad the idle power isn't closer to zero -- I may have to start unplugging.
1199522
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.
606635
Hi, it starts automatically and stays on , and when its on u can click on soft power button to standbt ( might need to unplug and plug power if u do that) and reboot . So I keep it on all the time unless it gets hot, which is not often, then I unplug to rest it.
1753729
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.
75174
you'll need to push the button to turn on and off. it does not sync to the computer being on or off.
2007367
I did have a problem with my Diskstation not waking up at one time so I just switched off the sleep function. For me, I'd much rather have the unit awake and available at all times than save a couple dollars in electricity. If you do want this feature then you might want to make sure you have "wake on LAN" enabled and also make sure that your firewall isn't blocking the incoming request to wake the diskstation up.
472867
Yes you must only put it to sleep an then use external mouse or keyboard to wake it. Otherwise you must open it.
23969
Answer from the company: generally almost computers have auto sleep function, but KT4004 USB 3.0 Express Card do not have wake up function, each time when your PC goes to sleep, you need to unplug the hard drive and then plug it again to make it work, hope you could kindly understand
565763
I believe you have to either touch the power button and turn it on or else simply plug it in and it starts on auto. I have been simply plugging it in and then unplugging it when its not needed.