Power Management of External Harddrive

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.

What i

"Pete" <> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>

What i

"Pete" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
>

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

--
Leo

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

"Pete" <> wrote in message
news:...
>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.
>
>

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.

"Pete" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
>

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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"Gary Mount" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
> "Pete" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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.
>>
>>