Power down when inactive? With Mac OS-X 10.4, can this drive shut off when inactive?
1140791
Yes, it does. I've had it do this on me, it takes a few seconds to spin back up after a long break.
2173429
Yes. You can set this in the Tools>Power Management option of the configuration. It has specific options to power down the drives after 5/10/15/20/25/30 minutes, or 1-5 hours.
1097782
Yes it's inactive but honestly I really never use it like that. It is a great ultrabook though I use it at work everyday cause it's light and fast. Comes out of standby just as quick as you open the screen up.
626710
Yes. In fact, it doesn't have an "on" switch, just boots when you apply power. You can shut it down via a menu option.
1399991
It might be that the drive you put in is bad, it's not turned on, or your USB port is not providing it enough power. I ran into the power issue with another drive due to my computer being a macbook, solved by getting a usb cable with two plugs - one for power, one for data.
1812053
I don't believe the box has any internal power save feature, but it does pass any OS sent power saving commands through to the drive. So if your OS has a spin down timer configured in its power options, then the external drive will share that spin down function and turn off and on with the OS requests.
95031
The Aura shuts off automatically when it's been inactive for a while, about 15 minutes or so. There's no sleep mode unless I missed it.
178081
If you are using the power adapter that is supplied with the USB hub the hub then is independently powered and the external drives are more than likely being "tricked" into thinking that there is still an active connection between the drives and the PC, therefore the drives will not turn off with the PC. If you unplug the adapter the external drives should then shut down also. Will the drives being on damage the drives? Not really, because there is no actual activity (reading/writing) taking place when the PC is turned off. Does it use a little electricity? Yes, but it would be minimal. Bottom line, if you are concerned about the drives being left on, unplug the power to the hub and they should shut down. If it means anything, I have a PC that I built with 5 Western Digital Black Series 4tb hard drives in RAID 0 and a 2tb external WD My Book attached that run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and they are fine.
730633
Not sure if I understand the question but there is an on off switch. I have 7 external drives and they're all off unless I'm using them.
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.
1509752
The answer is NO, i did made a test and unplug it during work and computer get shut down
121822
Hi, This drive is virtually silent unlike my other external hard drive which makes a lot of noise when active. How quite & cool this drive operates is one of the many things I like about it. It's possible yours could be defective. Maybe you could exchange it for another?
1936696
The cooler does not continue to run if you 'hibernate' or 'shut down' your laptop. I only turn it off if put it on 'sleep'.
173978
Yes, behind the red slider. It slowly blinks when the drive is plugged in and idle.
1287501
i used it on my mac, but it won't shut down, so i get an error when i disconnect. am looking for a way to fix that now.
23970
OS X ejects the external drives when the computer goes to sleep, and pops up a warning when you return. Other than this annoying popup message, nobody has reported any actual problems. It's an OS X issue, not the fault of the card.
734283
It has its own power supply. One weird thing about it is that it only turns off when you turn your computer off. And since my Mac is never shut off, this thing has been on since the day I bought it. Doesn't seem to be a problem though.