Patent ID: 7461278

Claim:
A method of controlling power consumption of a management apparatus to which an electronic apparatus is connected via a network, the management apparatus having at least two common storage devices that are shared with the electronic apparatus, said method comprising: detecting an accessed state to a first common storage device by the electronic apparatus; moving files contained in the first common storage device to a second common storage device based on the detected accessed state of the first common storage device, to gather together files accessed a predetermined number of times onto the second common storage device; and controlling an operational state of the first common storage device as a result of said moving of files, to thereby reduce power consumption by the management apparatus, wherein the number file accesses for the files in the first common storage device is recorded as an entry in a log file, and a file is moved from the first common storage device to the second common storage device if the respective log entry for the file is at least the predetermined number of times.