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No, you can't. Isn't that ridiculous? In this advanced age we still can't turn off unused drives if we want. Simple enough, right? Extra drive which is used sparingly continues to run, generate heat, fan needs to blow over it, drive life goes down, unnecessary power consumption... if only I could turn on the drive as needed. It's a simple matter to implement. Too simple I guess... Anyway, I hope some mobo company, or it could also be a PCI add-on (there needs to be some mechanism to turn on/off power to the HDD-- that would be found on the mobo or add-on card/drive) reads this and decides to offer up a providing product. Actually what would be best is for the HDD companies to provide an on/off switch capability in their controller. The HDD companies should have had this standard years ago. THIS IS SO SIMPLE!!!
Anyway, if some company does come across this, they still might not get how to best implement this. Companies are stupid like that. Here's what you would do:
Offer multiple ways to initiate turning on/off the HDD... but the must (default option let's say?) would be to: Have available links to the drive, or links to a directory on the drive once they are clicked on initiate the turning on of the drive (Yes, a little lag would be there while the drive powers up... only a very small % of even the mindless idiots will complain). When the explorer window or equivalent (custom explorer-like software perhaps) is closed, the drive turns off.
SEE, HOW SIMPLE IS THAT? COME ON!!
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