Joe wrote:
> I recently got an external hard drive, an OWC Mercury AL-Pro. It has an
> external power supply - from the size of it, I thinks it's a switch-mode.
>
> The only power switch is on the hard drive enclosure itself, not on the
> power supply.
>
> I have the thing plugged into a terminal strip that has individual
> switches for each outlet.
>
> Does it make any difference to use the switch on the terminal strip for
> the on-off switch and leave the switch on the enclosure always on?
>
It might - the switch on the disk enclosure might depend on the switcher
already being powered up; if it were left on, and the power supply switched,
the drive _might_ not be able to handle the power-on transients from the
power supply.
Use the switch on the drive box to power up/down the drive, and the switch
on the power strip to save energy. Turn on the power strip first, then
the drive box switch, and when turning it off, turn off the drive box switch
first, then the power strip.
Cheers!
Rich
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