Auto shutdown of external hard drive in a docking station when not in use

[jamar]

Hi,

I have some external hard drives running in docking stations (e.g. BlackX by Thermaltake). They are connected via USB to my computer, and run continually. Unfortunately, I only need one of them once a day, another once a week, and another once a month. (That is the backup schedule) Has anyone ever heard of an external docking station that will power down the drive when not in use? It seems like such a waste of energy to run a drive all month when it only gets used a few hours of that time. But I would need it to wake up automatically when the scheduled task calls for the drive to start the backup.

Thanks,
Jamar

 

[pathasse]

You can run Genie Backup and have it shut down your whole PC after a backup. I dont know about HDD only though. I think your gunna be stuck with using a Green Drive if you want to save energy.