The Chinese company Orico has a power supply for hard drives ge lwa introduced to six disks of energy. With the help of a special controller and the power supply per hard drive to be turned on and off.
In enclosures with a lot of hard drives, which drives, for example, serve as backupdrives, it is not always necessary, all the hard disks of energy. Through software this can of course largely be set, but that is not the case for the start of a pc. Then it can be desirable that not all of the disks at the same time ‘opspinnen’. The Chinese Orico has a piece of hardware developed for the user to control the hard disks. The controller was already this summer announced, but is only now available.
The HD-PW6102 is available in white and black, is in a 5.25″-drivebay mounted via two molex plugs to provide energy. At the front, externally accessible, are six buttons that the power supply to the hard drives on and off. Hard drives with six sata connectors connected to the box. The sale of the HD-PW6102 is in China started, and the unit cost 373 yuan, about 46 euro. In America costs the power disconnects for about $ 55.
