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Twayne
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Shenan Stanley typed:
> Twayne wrote:
>> That's true, though I see the situation changing slowly. With two
>> external terabyte drives, soon to add a third, I'd really like to
>> see accessible power switches on all of them. The power cable
>> connecting in back is OK but I'd also like to see the data cables
>> in some sort of protected (recessed) area near the front or even on
>> the front of the drives. I only want or need one at a time to be
>> connected 24/7, and that's for nightly backups. I put together an
>> A-B box to switch the power cables open on one and closed on the
>> other, and vice-versa when it's switched over. But the
>> Seagate/Maxtor has no power switch so I must use a power bar for
>> that. The other drive is an Acomdata and has a switch that's handy
>> to reach. One of these days I'll hack the Seagate too and put in a
>> switch there too. I hate messes of power bars and my powercenter is
>> way past maxxed out. Pretty sure I'll go for Acomdata for the third
>> one, too. For some reason I've had a really bad run on WD drives
>> the last couple years.
>> I suspect there are quite a few others like me that would like an
>> easy way to isolate their drives from the machines when they're not
>> in use. To do that you have to control both power and the data
>> cable though.
>> My 2 ¢ on the subject anyway,
>
> I'd say things are moving away from such storage and more towards NAS
> devices or just cloud storage for those trusting enough to store
> their data elsewhere. It's getting very easy to have wired/wireless
> storage attached to your home network now - inexpensive as well. Then you
> have access from all of your computers without getting up
> from your current location. ;-)
> Such NAS devices *do* have shutdown switches (shutdown because they
> have an OS in most cases.)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
Hmm, good catch.
Shenan Stanley typed:
> Twayne wrote:
>> That's true, though I see the situation changing slowly. With two
>> external terabyte drives, soon to add a third, I'd really like to
>> see accessible power switches on all of them. The power cable
>> connecting in back is OK but I'd also like to see the data cables
>> in some sort of protected (recessed) area near the front or even on
>> the front of the drives. I only want or need one at a time to be
>> connected 24/7, and that's for nightly backups. I put together an
>> A-B box to switch the power cables open on one and closed on the
>> other, and vice-versa when it's switched over. But the
>> Seagate/Maxtor has no power switch so I must use a power bar for
>> that. The other drive is an Acomdata and has a switch that's handy
>> to reach. One of these days I'll hack the Seagate too and put in a
>> switch there too. I hate messes of power bars and my powercenter is
>> way past maxxed out. Pretty sure I'll go for Acomdata for the third
>> one, too. For some reason I've had a really bad run on WD drives
>> the last couple years.
>> I suspect there are quite a few others like me that would like an
>> easy way to isolate their drives from the machines when they're not
>> in use. To do that you have to control both power and the data
>> cable though.
>> My 2 ¢ on the subject anyway,
>
> I'd say things are moving away from such storage and more towards NAS
> devices or just cloud storage for those trusting enough to store
> their data elsewhere. It's getting very easy to have wired/wireless
> storage attached to your home network now - inexpensive as well. Then you
> have access from all of your computers without getting up
> from your current location. ;-)
> Such NAS devices *do* have shutdown switches (shutdown because they
> have an OS in most cases.)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
Hmm, good catch.