Power Management of External Harddrive

[Pete]

I am thinking about buying an external harddrive. I would like to leave the
harddrive on all the time. Here are the questions I have.

1. Is it O.K. to leave the external harddrive on all the time?
2. How to do power management of the external harddrive? I don't see a way
to specify the idle time to turn the harddrive off in Vista power management
control.
3. Will the harddrive turn it off automatically?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Gary Mount]

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[Gary Mount]

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[Leo]

Manufacturer's software that was included with my external hard drive puts
the drive to sleep. YMMV.

 

[Gary Mount]

Ok, I will try this again using notepad first.
I was trying to type the following.

What is the interface you will be using, USB, Firewire, eSata ?

For some odd reason my Windows Live Mail would send my post as I was typing
out my message.
I have logged off and logged back on, and hope the anomaly has gone away.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Alt-s sends the message. Since you were typing the s in is when it sent, I
think it likely you were experiencing a stuck (or mis-struck) alt key.

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