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digitalman   06-09-2009 at 04:07:26 PM

Im trying to find an external USb enclosure for SATA drives that is fairly cheap and will support an automatic spindown during drive inactivity. i have a couple of maxtor drives that do this now, but i want to take some of my own internal drives and put them in cases to do the same thing. i have been searching newegg for this and cant seem to find one. anyone know any brands that do this?

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   06-11-2009 at 10:35:35 AM
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I think that regardless of whatever hard disk enclosure you use, the drives will spin down based on the power settings of your OS. At least in my experience, I've had a 2.5" disk in an enclosure, and it power down when I don't use it long enough.

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chripuck   06-11-2009 at 10:46:44 PM
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digitalman wrote :

Im trying to find an external USb enclosure for SATA drives that is fairly cheap and will support an automatic spindown during drive inactivity. i have a couple of maxtor drives that do this now, but i want to take some of my own internal drives and put them in cases to do the same thing. i have been searching newegg for this and cant seem to find one. anyone know any brands that do this?



I bought a $15 enclosure and it does this. It was a no-namer too. Any one will do what you want.

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