Windows 10: USB docking station - powered on or off when not in use ?

Have a new 2 HDD docking station for 2 of my older/larger Sata HDDs....question is should the docking station be powered on when not in use...?...does having it/them powered on shorten or affect their live expectancy or the docking station itself useful life ?

Thanks....TiminAz

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Keyboard and Mouse not working with Surface Dock and Windows 10

Hello,

I had the same issue. The only way I can get the docking station to recognize the USB dongle, is to power off than on the docking station. This only started happening this past month. There appears to be some patch that is causing the issue.

Peter

 

Windows 10: Icons selected to appear on Taskbar keep resetting back to default selections after random period of time

I also have the same issue. In my case I clearly see that the issues occurs every time I switch to and from my docking station.

While I am on the docking station and set the icons I want to see in the Task Tray (Outlook, Skype, Cisco VPN, SnagIt, power, sound, network, and time) and hide the others. These icons stay visible (though the order may change) over multiple boots as long
as I boot up on the docking station. Now when I boot my laptop off the docking station all the icons I have pinned are now hidden and only the power, sound, network, and time are displayed. I go back and show my icons again while off the docking station. As
long as I reboot off the docking station they stay. Then when I boot on the docking station everything resets again.

My profile is not corrupt, the icon cache has been cleared, I am on the latest Windows 10 x64 and it is fully patched. This is an issue at the core of the OS, not a corruption of files, registry, cache, or profile.