Power Save Utility
Buffalo bundles some software tools such as the Power Save Utility, which allows you to configure drive shutdown timeouts manually, or the Disk Formatter that has to be used if you need to format the drive with FAT32. Windows doesn’t support formatting FAT32 partitions at over 32 GB, although it’s technically possible.
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