- Joined
- Jul 5, 2003
- Location
- San Diego, CA
I just bought an external HDD enclosure with eSATA. How do I safely remove it from my computer? All I have on it is music, so I figure as long as my music player is closed, powering off the drive shouldn't be a problem. I know SATA is supposed to be hot swapable, but is there a formal unmounting processes that I'm supposed to do? When I connect the drive w/ USB (it has both connections) I get the "safely remove hardware" thing, but not when I use SATA. I'd leave the drive on all the time, but it gets a little warm and I don't want to shorten its life by leaving it on when I'm not using it. THanks