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12-13-2004, 11:41 AM
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External audio drive, leave power on or off?
Hey all,
The external firewire drive I backup my session/audio files can be left powered on or off. Would you leave it powered on or off and why? Any help appreciated, J.D 
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12-13-2004, 11:49 AM
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Re: External audio drive, leave power on or off?
I leave mine on (Maxtor 250s), because I don't like reaching around to turn them on everytime I fire up my rig, plus they have a sleep mode.
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12-13-2004, 12:40 PM
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Re: External audio drive, leave power on or off?
I've had two hard drives fail on me in the past year. Both of the failures were physical mechanical failures, not logical or electronics failures. I used to leave them on all the time, but now I turn them off unless I'm going to be using them. I figure that the less time they are running, the less chance there is of something going wrong.
(of course, backups would have been a good idea! argh!) Mike
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