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Hot-Pluggable
You can connect or disconnect FireWire devices while your
computer is running. This makes portability much easier
and saves you the time and hassle of shutting down and
restarting your computer. You can also turn a device on and
off while your computer is running. Let’s say you use your
Drive solely for data backups–so the Drive only needs to run
a few minutes every day–but your computer is on all day. If
the Drive was not hot-pluggable, you would either have to
shut down your computer every time you wanted to turn
the Drive on or off, or you would have to leave the Drive
running all day unnecessarily. Always dismount the Drive or
turn off your computer before turning off and disconnecting the
Drive.
Fanless Design
All hard drives generate some heat as a result of normal
operation, which is why hard drives often have big, noisy
fans. The 2163 was engineered to be more efficient and to
generate less heat, such that it does not need a fan, allow-
ing us to make the drive as compact and lightweight––and
quiet––as possible.
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