Hi Jason, Yes, it is. I leave mine plugged in with the power turned off all the time. At least, I have never heard anyone say that you are not supposed to do this, & if we are not supposed to do this, hopefully someone will jump in to tell us that we are both screwing up big time! LOL Take care. Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: jason smith To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 5:59 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] is it okay to leave an external hard driveplugged in Hi list. I have just done a bacckup of some of my files onto an external USB hard drive. I know it is important to try and make sure to use the "safely remove hardware" option from the system tray before unplugging the drive. However, if I turn off the power to the drive? is it okay to leave it plugged in via its USB cable to my desktop computer? Or will this be dangerous to my data when the computer is turned off or rebooted? The drive is not moved around. Rather, it remains sitting beside my computer table on the floor. And so does not get knocked about. The drive is a 500 Gig Maxta hard drive. if that is at all relevant? Thanks Jason For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
