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Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives? iMac usb 2.0?

From Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives? iMac usb 2.0?
Date 2012-08-16 16:49 +0000
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On 2012-08-16, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> When a Mac user, an iMac USB 2.0, has the harddrives set to turn off
> after N minutes, does that include USB and Firewire external
> harddrives?

Yes, but I know from experience that some external USB 2.0 drives will
spin down after a period of inactivity on their own, no matter what the
operating system is set to do.

> If the computer is marked Energy Star, which this one is, would that
> make any difference?

That simply means that the computer uses little power. An iMac uses
between 205 and 310 watts, which is low for a computer and a monitor.

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Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-08-16 12:42 -0400
  Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-08-16 16:49 +0000
    Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2012-08-16 21:46 +0100
  Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-08-16 09:52 -0700
    Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-08-16 14:33 -0400
      Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-08-16 14:50 -0400
      Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-17 10:20 -0400
        Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-08-17 11:41 -0400
        Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-17 19:35 +0000
          Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-17 16:06 -0400
            Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-17 20:27 +0000
              Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-08-17 18:53 -0400
                Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-08-17 16:52 -0700
                Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2012-08-17 22:07 -0400
                Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-08-18 09:19 -0400
                Re: Energy Star turns off external hard drives?  iMac usb 2.0? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2012-08-18 18:50 +0200

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