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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? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
If unused for a while, the hard drives in my PC power themselves down, They do? I could imagine that they might spin down (ie stop rotating) and therefore reduce their power consumption, but I'd expect their controllers to stay powered-up, so that they could initiate a spin-up when the next I/O request comes along. 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? I'd have thought the Buffalo drive would also spin down, but if it powers off how would you then get it back on again? I've a router with some sort of NAS capabilty (which I've not explored). One of the problems with that, so far as I can see, is that if one plans to switch off an attached drive one first has to dismount it from the router's OS - which in practice means using a browser to login to the router, navigating to the disk-controller page, and choosing 'dismount'. It's not something I'd do very often... -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. Email sent to my from-address will be deleted. Instead, please reply to replacing "aaa" by "284". |
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Jeremy Nicoll - news posts expressed precisely :
Harry Bloomfield wrote: If unused for a while, the hard drives in my PC power themselves down, They do? I could imagine that they might spin down (ie stop rotating) and therefore reduce their power consumption, but I'd expect their controllers to stay powered-up, so that they could initiate a spin-up when the next I/O request comes along. They do, but having thought about it, its the operating system which powers it down after a preset period of inactivity. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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On Saturday, March 8, 2014 1:47:14 PM UTC, 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? If there isnt one, you could plug it into a pc. ISTR unmounting spins them down. NT |
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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. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 09/03/2014 15:54, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
That does work, but the idea was to be able to just have the router, an IP camera and disk powered. If that's all its for then a USB memory stick would probably be better than a disk. You can get quite a lot on a 64g stick. |
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