Why does my external enclosure HD constantly spiin?

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skylightron
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2012/03/17 17:11:46 (permalink)

Why does my external enclosure HD constantly spiin?

Just got myself an external enclosure and threw in a bare drive and it is constantly spinning without spinning down like in store bought external HD's. I also notice a slight hum that the HD or enclosure gives off. Are these two things normal?
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    gcruz
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    Re:Why does my external enclosure HD constantly spiin? 2012/03/17 20:34:11 (permalink)
    Is your HD formated? Does the computer acknowledge the drive? What's installed in that drive? Is that an old drive? Maybe you have installed a program that communicate with the main HD and every time you open or use "that" program the one on the enclosure activate and or communicate staying ON all the time.

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    Re:Why does my external enclosure HD constantly spiin? 2012/03/18 00:50:37 (permalink)
    It's a new bare drive that was Quick formatted. It only contains a sample library from Maschine. What is that humming noise I'm hearing? The enclosure doesn't have a fan, so it must be the HD and the enclosure - but is this normal?
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    Re:Why does my external enclosure HD constantly spiin? 2012/03/18 02:55:23 (permalink)
    IIRC also my external La Cie drives run all the time when connected. If they are positioned on a surface that can resonate, the spinning sound gets audible. Keep the enclosure on a piece of superlon or something similar. Very likely there are enclosures of variyng quality on the market.

    Actually, I think all HDDs spin continuosly (???) unless there's a long enough pause in usage that triggers sleep mode (?). Getting up to speed from "standing position" in milliseconds for every reading/writing would be impossible, wouldn't it?

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