RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Are those external enclosures like these:
> http://tinyurl.com/2j6cof

Yup...

> i.e using firewire bridge boards?  If so, do the drives ever spin
down?

They do if the machine they're connected to supports it - on the Mac they
can be spun down quite happily and will spin up again without problems
(apart from one hell of a delay while they spin up sequentially if you're
accessing data across all the drives which I do do).

> I've been looking at using external storage (either USB2 or Firewire)
> but I've noticed that the single disk units I have at the moment never
> spin down.  Since the media will only be accessed occasionally (and
even
> then, only one or two drives at once), this seems a bit of a waste.

I guess it depends on the OS you're using...

Phil