I have a mid 2010 iMac running Mavericks 10.9.5 that I leave on 24/7.
I have an older 1.5TB Seagate external connected (USB 2.0) that I perform a daily (4:00 AM) Carbon Copy Cloner backup on. The main backup is done and only daily incremental backups are updated each night.
Meanwhile, the external hard drive spins 24/7. Is that normal? Is there any way to have it spin down when it's not being accessed?
I have the external disabled from Spotlight indexing and not selected for backup through Backblaze.
Does a program exist to force spin down of hard drives on a schedule? For instance, since this external's only job is the daily CCC backup, it could be spun up at 3:50 AM and then spun down once the task was complete.
Thanks
I have an older 1.5TB Seagate external connected (USB 2.0) that I perform a daily (4:00 AM) Carbon Copy Cloner backup on. The main backup is done and only daily incremental backups are updated each night.
Meanwhile, the external hard drive spins 24/7. Is that normal? Is there any way to have it spin down when it's not being accessed?
I have the external disabled from Spotlight indexing and not selected for backup through Backblaze.
Does a program exist to force spin down of hard drives on a schedule? For instance, since this external's only job is the daily CCC backup, it could be spun up at 3:50 AM and then spun down once the task was complete.
Thanks