[plug] USB external HDDs

[Michael Holland]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Incidentally, am I the only one who gets really scared about how hot
> drives run in those enclosures?  Especially since they don't implement
> any SMART monitoring and generally don't let you spin the drive down.

Here there is a fanless one, with the aluminium case bolted to the
HDD, to make a heatsink. It gets quite warm.
  Maybe I should should put some thermal paste in between?

Unmounting spins it down, which is useful. e.g. with backup scripts.