Iomega 2TB EZ Media Constant Hard Disk Access

Hi,
I have been provided a replacement 2TB NAS from Lenovo for a previously faulty drive, but this one seems to now constantly be writing something to the disk. Even with all computers on the network turned off, the disk make a short  noise as though its writting to disk and the disk light shows activity. After already having one faulty Iomega drive and loosing loads of data, I am more than a little concerned by this activity as it shouldnt be doing this.
Thanks,
Gee

Hi medic00,
Are you trying to use the Energy Saving feature to power down the drives? If the media server is enabled, the drives won't be able to power down.
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