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

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:52:26 -0700, Michael Vilain
<vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

>In article <6f8q28de37e5momlk7v72jt2oh339m2ccf@4ax.com>,
> 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?
>> 
>> My friend says it didn't,

That is, he could still feel it vibrating a little, because it was
spinning. 

>> but he doesn't know how to get into the
>> right screen so maybe it's not set to turn off. .   
>> 
>> In this case I do't need a detailed answer, because, though it's
>> inconvenient, I can go over there for a few minutes. .  
>> 
>> If the computer is marked Energy Star, which this one is, would that
>> make any difference?
>> 
>> Thanks. 
>
>Can you discuss your definition of "turn off".  Usually, when a device 

Sorry.  I meant spin down. 

>>is powered down, it no longer responds to commands unless some part of 
>it is actually not powered down but drawing a small amount of current to 
>"listen" for power up commands.  Some would call it "sleep" rather than 
>"power off".
>
>MacOS's System Preferences has an Energy Saver panel.  You can set the 
>display and system to sleep after a period.  I set mine to blank the 
>display after 2 hours.  I don't allow my MacPro to sleep.  You can set 
>the disk drives to 'sleep' from this panel also.  There's no granularity 
>on this.  If the system goes to sleep, the drives will also.

That would be perfect, except like y ou sayin the next line. 

>BUT, if the drive doesn't support this sort of powered down mode, it 
>doesn't matter.  

That's very important.  Thanks. 

>Note the drives are not 'turn off'.

Okay.    

Thanks Michael and Salvatore. 

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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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