Re: What happens when?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:14 pm
Suzi,
Yes, they should, but if you dont want them on, you can power them down (assuming you have an on/off switch) or pull the power supply out of the SATA EHD.
All of my EHDs have an on/off switch and I turn them on and connect them only when I am doing a backup - usually after downloading from my camera or when I have done a lot of updates across My Documents. That is why I use SyncToy - it finds out what hac changed and updates it to the EHD.
If I didn't have a power switch on the EHD, I would plug them into my power bar that I use for what I want to turn off when I want to keep the basic stuff going (like a back-up) to my EHDs and want to turn off every other power consuming piece of stuff.
I follow with a shot of my workstation and power configuration - designed for optimal power savings. During the day, I put the system to sleep and turn off the white power bar (Monitor, Speakers, Mouse, Room light) and at night I turn shutdown and turn off the main power bar. The main bar is the "good" one - power surge protected, etc, the white one is plugged into the good one and is an old elcheapo, but saves energy. At night, all these things still consume about 20Watts even turned off and presumable sleeping.
Both of the EHDs on "top" have the same power connextion, so I just plug in the one I want to back-up to. The one on the desktop is a SATA dock with removeable drive and plugs in as either USB or eSATA.
Oh yes, the little white power bar is plugged into the "always on" outlets on the main bar and is where I charge up my batterys.
So, here it is - no laughing please!
Yes, they should, but if you dont want them on, you can power them down (assuming you have an on/off switch) or pull the power supply out of the SATA EHD.
All of my EHDs have an on/off switch and I turn them on and connect them only when I am doing a backup - usually after downloading from my camera or when I have done a lot of updates across My Documents. That is why I use SyncToy - it finds out what hac changed and updates it to the EHD.
If I didn't have a power switch on the EHD, I would plug them into my power bar that I use for what I want to turn off when I want to keep the basic stuff going (like a back-up) to my EHDs and want to turn off every other power consuming piece of stuff.
I follow with a shot of my workstation and power configuration - designed for optimal power savings. During the day, I put the system to sleep and turn off the white power bar (Monitor, Speakers, Mouse, Room light) and at night I turn shutdown and turn off the main power bar. The main bar is the "good" one - power surge protected, etc, the white one is plugged into the good one and is an old elcheapo, but saves energy. At night, all these things still consume about 20Watts even turned off and presumable sleeping.
Both of the EHDs on "top" have the same power connextion, so I just plug in the one I want to back-up to. The one on the desktop is a SATA dock with removeable drive and plugs in as either USB or eSATA.
Oh yes, the little white power bar is plugged into the "always on" outlets on the main bar and is where I charge up my batterys.
So, here it is - no laughing please!