Shield TV & External HDD

by shatheid

I just purchased a Shield TV, and it will be arriving in a few days.

My understanding is that the Shield TV never actually powers completely off, but goes into a sort of sleep mode.

How does this affect External/Portable HDDs? Ideally, when not in use those drives would power down completely.

Is that possible?

bennyhillthebest

I have an old laptop hd connected to the shield. It never powers down because i can hear the soft buzzing of the spinning plates. But luckily i have a powerstrip with a switch for the tv so i connected the shield to that too