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["Scott E. Armitage" <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Something that would be really nice for external drives is the ability to
spin it down, and then back up again for re-mount.. this lets you
effectively turn off the drive from your desktop without having to
physically unplug the external drive.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi again, MPT ;)
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 19:32, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> But what proportion of people who use USB keys understand that it's
>> possible to "power them on and off", do you think?
>>
>
> rather usb hdd, is what i was thinking of..
> I remember discussion on how there's no way to power down a hdd after
> unmounting its partitions (to make sure it's now okay to remove the cable)
>
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