Jettison eliminates the hassle of manually ejecting external
drives before you put your MacBook to sleep.
With Jettison, you just close your MacBook, unplug and go!
"This software is a welcome utility! I can't count how many times I've closed my MacBook Pro lid and forgot to eject external drives first." - Marc Garneau
You're
taking your MacBook with you. What do you need to do?
Without Jettison
Switch to the Finder
Open a Finder window if there's not one open
Click to eject each external or network drive
Wait for the drives to disappear
Close your MacBook
Unplug your drives
With Jettison
Close your MacBook
Wait for your computer to sleep
Unplug your drives
And what if you decide not to leave, and open your MacBook back up?
Jettison will check to see if your drives are still connected and will mount them back on the Desktop automatically.
Technical Wisdom
Q: Why do I need to eject hard drives before unplugging them?
A: You risk losing data if you don’t. OS X doesn’t write information to the drive immediately - it often caches it to make operations faster. If you unplug a drive without first ejecting it, OS X may not have a chance to actually write that data to the drive!