how to tell hard drive in external enclosure to go to sleep?

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bluemoose

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how to tell hard drive in external enclosure to go to sleep?

I have a 300gb Seagate hard drive inside a USB external enclosure.(made by Adaptec,
like the one in this photo)
adaptec_enclosure.jpg



If I do not turn it off, the drive just keeps running and not go into sleep mode.
(just a regular external USB hard drive)

Thanks! :)
 
Hard-drives never stop spinning unless the PC is entered into Hibernate or is shut-down. This is because it can take a while (relatively speaking) for a drive to spin up. It doesn't matter anyway as the motor life on HDD's is really very long indeed. Just let it run.
 
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