I recently got an external hard drive, an OWC Mercury AL-Pro. It has an external power supply - from the size of it, I thinks it's a switch-mode.
The only power switch is on the hard drive enclosure itself, not on the power supply.
I have the thing plugged into a terminal strip that has individual switches for each outlet.
Does it make any difference to use the switch on the terminal strip for the on-off switch and leave the switch on the enclosure always on?
I'm thinking that maybe the switching power supply might put out a pulse at turn-on, and so it might be better to have the switch on the enclosure off until after the power supply has been turned on.
Even if there is a pulse from the power supply, is it possible/likely to damage anything?
Thanks.
--- Joe