Quick question regarding external hard drive and sleep mode

[eternaldark]

Just a quick question

I'm buying a 160gb passport HDD for my macbook pro and wondered if its ok to leave it plugged into USB while the laptop sleeps or do i need to disconnect it everytime?

And also if i am swapping users do i need to unplug it sign on to next user and plug in HDD or can i leave it in?

Reason being I want it to be as simple to use as possible for the otherhalf and save faffing about with unplugging etc

Thanks

 

[aristobrat]

Most drives will go to sleep on their own, so you shouldn't have to worry about unplugging it when your system goes to sleep.

I don't see any reason to unplug the drive when you switch users, either.

 

[dukebound85]

Yea it will be fine plugged in. thats what i do and i have no problems at all. i even leave it plugged in when i switch from osx to xp and still works fine

 

[eternaldark]

Thanks to both of you