Remote power management solutions?

[Danny Howard]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:15:00PM -0500, Rich Holland wrote:
> I'm looking for a really cheap remote power management solution for use at
> home.  I have a handful of external USB drives that I need occasional remote
> access to, but generally they can be powered down (they get REALLY hot!).
> I'd like to find a fairly inexpensive power port or power strip that I can
> use to toggle their power on/off remotely via VNC, e.g. by running some
> local program on the server at home.

Cheapest solution may well be to replace your little one-off buggers
with a newer, cheaper, internal disk that can spin down via power
management.

-danny