how do turn off an external hard drive

[Mike McCarty]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 17:02 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 
> 
>>How do I turn the power off?
>>Just unplugging would seem a bad idea.
> 
> 
> There really isn't a need to power off a hard drive.
> They generally get more wear and tear from powering on then they do from
> being left on.
> 

Do you have any real data to back that up?

Mike
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