Jettison is a utility that ejects external disks from your MacBook automatically. It eliminates the hassle of manually ejecting external drives before you put your MacBook to sleep. With Jettison, you just close your MacBook, unplug, and go!
Why do I need to eject hard drives before unplugging them? You risk losing data if you don’t. OS X doesn’t write information to the drive immediately - it often caches it to make operations faster. If you unplug a drive without first ejecting it, OS X may not have a chance to actually write that data to the drive!
Keep Drive Spinning ensures that a connected drive never goes into low-power mode.
A free Automator workflowMount any FireWire/USB drives you have ejected.
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