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Rosewill RX-358 ext. hardrive. Safe to operate with fan off?
Newegg.com - Rosewill RX-358 V2 SLV (Silver) 3.5" SATA to USB & eSATA External Enclosure w/Int.80mm Fan
Here's a link to my product. I've got a 2 TB WD green drive in it. I'm wondering if I can turn the fan switch off on this when this is hooked up to my popbox media player which reads my 1080p mkv movies from the hardrive. I notice the green drive spins down on it's own when I turn off my popbox which is important but the fan doesn't turn itself off any I don't want to leave it on all the time nor do I want to have to be manually turning it off and on all the time. With the fan turned off can anyone tell me what's the coolest orientation for enclosure to be in? Vertical, horizontal, upside down? When the fan grille is facing up the hard drive is inverted. I know hard drives work fine vertically but I wasn't sure about inverted. Ofcoarse I'll turn the fan on when I hook hardrive up to PC for mass file transfers.