Computer Guru's, Does my external Hard Drive go to sleep if its still blinking?

The hard disk "enclosure" LED will usually stay on or blink to indicate it is receiving power although the drive itself may have been spun down. You might want to check the enclosure manual to see if they have anything listed for the LED as a status indicator.

It sounds like you're worried about the drives spinning down and then locking up or crashing when they spin up, if this happens often and the drive starts to age (or is relatively new and untested). I'd definitely recommend having a backup of the music. Using a NAS with RAID is another option that would be statistically safer. You could also consider using SSD drives.

Can you "feel" the vibrations between when you know it’s running and when you think it’s off?
You could use a makeshift stethoscope from tubing... or get one of these or even cheaper.

I should add the breakdown maxim: It's not if, it's when.

nekoaudio,
Thank you. I thought about a raid system. But I like just being able to plug the hard drive in to the back of the Lumin. Just simple and easy, to this computer challenged old man.

ozzy

noromance,

You know while the Lumin is running I can feel vibrations in the hard drive. I actually placed some f-Q2 under it.

I'm going to check if the hard drive still vibrates when the Lumin is in sleep mode. Good idea!
If it doesn't, does that mean what nekopaudio stated that it may just be indicating it is receiving power?

ozzy