Hi,
What I would like to do is have an external USB drive that is permanantly connected to a NAS so that the NAS disk can be backed up as a scheduled task.
I don't to to be plugging/unplugging the drive and issuing commands everytime I want to do a backup - just want it to happen in the background.
I have been told that if I buy a ready made portable USB drive then they never spin down - and that is understandable becuse you would only plug them in when you need them.
So I am quite prepared to buy an enclosure, with a mains adaptor and fit a retail hard disk.
But will that work - are there any combinations that will spin down.
And what determines the spin down - the disk, the enclosure or the computer/NAS that it is connected to.
Many thanks,
Nigel
What I would like to do is have an external USB drive that is permanantly connected to a NAS so that the NAS disk can be backed up as a scheduled task.
I don't to to be plugging/unplugging the drive and issuing commands everytime I want to do a backup - just want it to happen in the background.
I have been told that if I buy a ready made portable USB drive then they never spin down - and that is understandable becuse you would only plug them in when you need them.
So I am quite prepared to buy an enclosure, with a mains adaptor and fit a retail hard disk.
But will that work - are there any combinations that will spin down.
And what determines the spin down - the disk, the enclosure or the computer/NAS that it is connected to.
Many thanks,
Nigel