Please Help A New User

[vootsie]

Thanks so much for replying. Sorry to be a pain, but...

What do you mean by "if you allow spindown to occur"?

Also, you wrote: "modify the scheduling script to locate and mount, then eject, the drive." Where can I learn how to do this?

Originally Posted by dnanian

Well, vootsie, I can't think of why it's a bad idea to keep your drive connected, if you allow spindown to occur. If it's got a decent fan in it, and it's spinning down, it's basically idle. Why not leave it connected and mounted?

SD! will not mount a local drive if it's not present -- you'd have to do it yourself, or modify the scheduling script to locate and mount, then eject, the drive.

In general, it's best to name the drive the same as the internal drive, but it's not really *required* if you don't boot from it. (The reason is that aliases store the name of the drive along with the path to the file, even on the boot drive. As such, those aliases will preferentially resolve to the original drive they came from -- which means you'll sometimes be opening files and applications on the original, rather than the backup.)