On 08/03/2014 13:47, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Some long while ago, I bought a Buffalo USB 1Tb hard drive. It is
physically quite large and came with its own wall-wart PSU. I have not
really used it much. This week my ISP sent me a new router, which
included a USB Samba connection and I have now managed too get the drive
working via that.

If unused for a while, the hard drives in my PC power themselves down,
so I rather expected there might be some way to achieve that with the
Buffalo drive. It seems silly to have it running continuously if it is
not being used, but where the router and Buffalo are located, is not
easily accessed and some way away. Is there some way too set such a
drive too self power down after a period of inactivity please?

You would need support for this in the router[1], since it is in effect
acting as a NAS device - it needs to control the drive based on the
demands of the network, not just one PC.

[1] Depending on what it is, it may have it, or even a capability to add
facilities.


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Cheers,

John.

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