connected to a laptop, made a decision right away, without tambourine dancing. Ntfs formatted. Operates in a zyxel router as a network drive. The disk does not sit idle for a long time because the router contains a built-in DLNA server and a torrent downloader. (24-hour mode of operation. Or, more accurately, left it plugged in and unattended.) If no data is being recorded to or read from the disk, it will eventually power off. Not much light is reflected from the indicator, at least not more than the router. Although I don't have USB 3.0, the read speed on USB 2 is roughly 10 MB/s. The server only needs dlna. It has been approximately a week since I started using it; if I cover it in a review, I'll let you know.
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