WD Elements 25A2 1tb Spin Down ?

[westover]

Just wondering if anyone has one of these connected to their NAS and can confirm whether it's spins down or not when inactive

TIA
Peter

[dolbyman]

needs to be configured with the manufacturer tools first

connect to.a windows or mac computer and set the spindown timeout

[westover]

Does that mean that by deafult there is no spindown or does this utilty just adjust the default timing delay

[dolbyman]

the utility activates a timer on the usb to sata controller..when no data request in x amount of seconds, the disk goes into standby .. nothing for the nas to do

[westover]

Thanks, I access the NAS remotely so won't be able to do this for some time, hence the question about a default timing
So rather than have the prospect of this 2.5" possibly spinning 24/7 I will get the office to buy two 256gb USB 3 pen drives,
512gb are currently too pricey,well the genuine ones are

[dolbyman]

as long as the remote access is done via vpn