[Gllug] recommendation for external hard drive

[Daniel Kingshott]

The Lacie's I have work great and they have proper power switches.

As for being green, the heat generated by my machines and stuff is used to help my vege plants germinate so I'm not bothered about power / heat ;)


As for Joddy, looks like both you and I had a lucky escape from *THAT* hosting provider, although I only went to the interview for comedy value and beers afterwards.

P.s please don't tell people you 'know of me' when you are interviewed, given you don't really know me at all...

Dan
 

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon
Sent: 21 October 2009 14:25
To: Greater London Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] recommendation for external hard drive

Daniel Kingshott wrote:
> I've found the sea agent drives to be hideously annoying when they go 
> into 'sleep' mode and take some time to wake up
A lot of models are like that these days and those types rarely come with on/off switches any more. They're mainly aimed at low usage people running Windows and powering their PCs up only when they want to play something or browse so the drives are minimal effort for those sorts of users that they are targeted at as they start up, shut down and spin down along following the PC usage pattern. There are utils to control that spin down behaviour if I recall correctly, but again, they are Windows utils.

If you don't like that "sleep mode", avoid the models without on/off switches, buy Iomega instead of Seagate/Maxtor/WD user level consumer drives. The models with on/off switches are less likely to have that spin down feature - at least I've observed few of these brands I have don't spin down when they have switches to control on/off. The Toshiba drives have switches too, but I don't like their build as much.

On the other hand, spin down could be a good thing if you're not hammering the drives 24/7... will save you some electricity, and green is good after all...

-h

ps. say hi to Jonathan for me. :-)

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