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External Enclosure with Power Management?

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I'm looking for an external enclosure that supports Power Management (i.e. It allows the drive to spin down).

I'm going to be putting a 500 or 750 GB drive in it and it will be hooked to my server with my RAID array so that I can schedule nightly backups of some selected data.

The enclosure needs to:

1) Have a fan
2) Have at least USB 2.0
3) Allow the drive to spin down when not in use
4) Have an internal SATA connection.

There are a couple of units on Newegg that satisfy #1, #2 and #4, but I can't find anything about #3.

Little help?

Thanks!!
Riley
 
I don't think you're going to find one. The logic behind external disks is that they are either portable or used for backup. In either case, they are only on when needed, so a power-down system is not included.

You might look at e-sata. I'm not sure, but I would assume that it would support power management, since to my knowledge, it's just a different packaging of the standard sata interface.
 
External drives often have a power switch though, so, there's potential for manual power mgmt :D
 
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