External Hard Drive Has An On/Off Switch On The Drive Hopefully In Front
Posted in Repair by Manyu Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
External hard drive has an on/off switch on the drive, hopefully in front?Also, is the electric plug a simple plug, or is it one of those big bricks that takes up 2 spots on the surge strip? From my experience, not only an on/off switch but also a fan. Heat is a killer, I don’t care what they (mfgs) say.
Bummer, that’s a deal-killer for me, I have 6 different external drives and my experience is that a drive with an on/off switch is what I need. Thanks for the quick reply…
Their advertising says that it doesn’t have any auto bootup software built in. Is this true? I want to use my own 3-party backup software.
WD Elements 2 TB HDD does NOT have an on-off switch. Just connect the electricity plug and then the USB cable, and it’s ready to go. This HDD has a power adapter with the 2 flat USA type plugs right on that power adapter. So to plug in the electricity outlet on the wall or on a surge strip, the whole power adapter needs to be plugged in and does take 2 spots on the wall outlet or on a surge strip. From that power adapter, coming out is the electricity plug which goes directly into the HDD. So the power adapter and the electricity plug are in fact only one piece, all together.
I am using this WD Elements 2TB HDD now with no software whatsoever from WD. So if I remembered correctly (I have this HDD for quite some time by now), either the HDD did not originally have any software on it, or if the HDD originally had some softwares on it they should be easily deleted by just simply delete them in Windows Explorer. One thing is certain though, no software was automatically self-installed when I first connected the HDD to my computer.
