“Power saving mode not working My hard drive normally goes into sleep mode after no activity for about 15 minutes. However, with this enclosure it runs continuously. Also, when I first connected it to a WinXP machine, it was not recognized until I used a MacBook to format the disk.”
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Had a similar problem, the enclosure eliminates the power saving mode, the enclosure just gets rid of it
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Actually I prefer that my drives never sleep. Just as accelerating a car from 0 to 60MPH creates more wear and tear on the engine than keeping the car running at a steady 60MPH, sleeping a hard drive causes its disk to stop spinning completely, and when it wakes it has to quickly spin up to 5400 or 7200RPM. That causes much more wear and tear on the drive motor than just letting the drive spin. And today's hard drives are so energy efficient that replacing the drive prematurely because of sleep will cost you far more than the tiny saving you'll achieve by sleeping the drive. The fact that your drive wasn't recognized when you first plugged it into a Windows XP computer wasn't related to this box, but rather to the fact that Windows XP recognizes drives formatted using the Fat-32 or NTFS partition maps…unformatted drives, or drives formatted with the Apple File System or GUID partition maps aren't recognized until their reformatted. Hope that helps.
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