Thanks, too bad, that's what I was thinking. The drives may go to sleep, but will still be powered on (of course, with a lower power consumption). Way lower power, and not spinning . Not sure I see the downside here... compared to building a whole new system w/ its attendant higher embedded power, ...

The IcyDock does not turn on and off with the PC unlike the Mediasonic enclosures. If connected through eSATA, presumably the drives inside will function as if they were internal drives, going to sleep and awaking when accessed depending on what power options the O/S has. That's how it works with t...

Finally, I found the link
http://ain.mediasonic.ca/store/product_ ... cts_id=234

The feature I'm referring to is:
Power Sync: Power off in synchronization with PC

You can certainly halt the drives, but if you expect any Windows based OS to allow you to do it in a sane matter, you're out of luck. I'm using linux :-) Maybe using hdparm or sdparm? Google "sdparm esata spindown"; might point you in the right direction. I used to try to manually spindown drives w...

Monkeh16 wrote:You can certainly halt the drives, but if you expect any Windows based OS to allow you to do it in a sane matter, you're out of luck.

I'm using linux

I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc ? No, how would it? I don't really know, perhaps through the s-ata protocol. I mean, besides the power switch, if the unit can "soft switch" off and turn off the drives. There's another product that claims to be able to operate in that wa...

Hello, thanks for the great review. I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc? I'm not sure what box you are referring to, but if it's running WHS, there is a very nice add in program called Lights Out that keeps the server in sleep mode unless a client is active or the server ha...

Hello, thanks for the great review. I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc? I'm not sure what box you are referring to, but if it's running WHS, there is a very nice add in program called Lights Out that keeps the server in sleep mode unless a client is active or the server ha...

Hello, thanks for the great review. I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc? Or, does it need to be switched on manually before powering on the server, and switched off after server shutdown? As another user pointed out, this is a major point of attention, even for a home server...