Any links to good hardware forums or pointers to external HDD enclosures with controllers that never go stand by?

[littlergirl at gmail.com]

Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> littlergirl wrote:

> > https://www.userbenchmark.com
> I couldn't find anything about enclosures with SATA to USB
> controllers.

Yeah. It's a general link that I keep around, so I figured it was
worth a mention.

> I already spend much time with reddit. It wasn't a help.

I agree that that's usually true, but in this case, the two links I
sent consist of the information put together by people who devote
their days to finding the very best new deals on hardware and sharing
them. It's an ongoing competition between people whose passion makes
them experts at digging up exactly that kind of information and it's
a wonderful place to see what's happening TODAY in the market.

> Currently I'm inquiring with various manufacturers and have already
> received the first response from one manufacturer:
> 
> "all our external boxes have the spindown function set directly in
> the FW control chip to 10 minutes" - Axagon Team

This page might be of some use and might make it so you can buy any
drive and any enclosure:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/39760/how-can-i-control-hdd-spin-down-time

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