Ejecting/Force sleeping INTERNAL drive

taylorconor95

I have 2 HD's in my macbook pro, an ssd and a high storage HDD. Is there any little status bar app that anyone knows of that lets me put the HDD to sleep when not needed (badly need to save battery!)? or any other ideas?

Thanks

Liameter

What Operating System?

taylorconor95

10.6.8

Liameter

Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Energy Saver
[v] Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible

taylorconor95

Liameter wrote: »

Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Energy Saver
[v] Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible

Yes but how do I choose when to do it?

Liameter

The only certain way I know of is to dismount it. Otherwise the OS will put it to sleep only whenever it hasn't been accessed for a few minutes.

taylorconor95

Ok then how do I dismount and then re-mount it

Liameter

From memory you right-click on the Disk's desktop icon and select "Eject".

To remount it you'd probably have to unplug it momentarily or use Disk Utility. The latter would admittedly be a pain but it's probably a trivial matter (for those who can) to create an AppleScript to re-mount it - especially as the name of the Hard Drive is known.

taylorconor95

Liameter wrote: »

From memory you right-click on the Disk's desktop icon and select "Eject".

To remount it you'd probably have to unplug it momentarily or use Disk Utility. The latter would admittedly be a pain but it's probably a trivial matter (for those who can) to create an AppleScript to re-mount it - especially as the name of the Hard Drive is known.

Yeah this is an internal drive so i cant just right click it...

Liameter

Sorry, I misread your original description. Thought you had an internal SSD and an external HDD. In that case you can perform both operations using Disk Utility or get someone to write a script that will do those operations.