HDD power down?

[harrym1byt]

I use a USB HDD which has it's own separate power supply...

I can turn the HDD's supply off at the mains, but that would mean when the Passion + turns itself on to record, the HDD would not be available to it. So I tried a little experiment with one of those power saver socket gadgets which turns all the periopherals off, when a PC is put to standby - but because the Passion draws much less current, it failed to turn the HDD's PSU on when the Passion was powered up.

So for now the HDD runs all the time - anyone found a solution?

[drh]

I use laptop 2.5 drives in an ebay caddy. They take a lot less power than the normal PC 3.5 drives and all mine seem to work from the USB port. I would say that from previous posts some users have difficulty with them, but I never have.