Airport Extreme (n) and External Hard Drive

[kolax]

Managed to get all this setup within a matter of minutes - was fantastic. However, I'm concerned about my external drive; when plugged into my Mac, the drive automatically goes into a standby mode if inactive. This greatly preserve the lifespan of the drive and prevent other problems. Unfortunately, when connected with AirDisk, the drive never goes into standby mode.

Have I missed some sort of setting that allows this in the Airport Utility?

My hard drive is an Iomega 320Gb.


Cheers

 

[skunk]

No, this is what happens, as the AEBSn is not a computer. Actually, you're lucky to get it working at all.

 

[kolax]

Ahh right. So best thing to do is to turn the drive off when it's not being used?

What about unmounting the drive etc before I turn it off - does simply ejecting it from my Mac desktop (assuming no one else is connected) allow a safe turn off?

Reason for my concern is that I've already had to replace one of my external hard drives due to disc failure (either the fact that I left it on 24/7 or that it had a wee tumble).

 

[skunk]

Ahh right. So best thing to do is to turn the drive off when it's not being used?

What about unmounting the drive etc before I turn it off - does simply ejecting it from my Mac desktop (assuming no one else is connected) allow a safe turn off?

Reason for my concern is that I've already had to replace one of my external hard drives due to disc failure (either the fact that I left it on 24/7 or that it had a wee tumble).

That should work in theory. In my case, it did not. My drive would not mount again, then my printer disappeared.