how do turn off an external hard drive

[Tim]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:33 -0500, Stuart Levy wrote:
> That temperature can rise a good deal if the disk is very active,

I was told otherwise...  Most of the heat being from the disk spinning
in air, which it does all the time.  The same, whether in use or idle.
The heads don't do much to generate heat while moving around,
apparently.

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