30 minute spindowns
We were unable to find the page you requested. Buffalo Technology’s somewhat pricey Tera Stations, for instance, apparently has a fixed 30 minute spindown timer – though good luck finding anything about it in the manual. Fancier Network-Attached Storage gadgets spin down their drives, of course. They keep spinning the usb cd writer thing all day and all night, and keep spinning their cheap-bearinged cooling fan too, for that matter; that’ll probably give out even sooner than the drive does, but is of course easier to replace, or hack around with some unsightly external fan contraption. But if you’re using USB drive boxes, their own little bridge interface is what decides when the drive spins down.
