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Left clicking the icon gives the option on that page.
Right clicking the icon gives a context menu,which is distinctly separate,in understandable english.
It could have something to do with the HDD's factory settings. My USB HDD will properly park the heads even if it is connected to a USB charger, which will definitely not send a command to park the heads.
Are you sure all modern HDDs use it? My HDD was released in 2016. I found no relevant information in the product manual, which only mentions "QuietStep ramp load technology".
It as been in development since the first person dropped one... Today's laptop drives have live free fall protection and if you drop your laptop the hdd will be parked before it hits the ground.
Don't worry with that the hdd will support as much clean or unclean shutdown that it can.... if it's 300,000 then it's that, clean or unclean... it's more for statistical view of the thing... but wear remain unafected... If your hd makes a nice click when you pull the power out suddenly... It's solidly parked.
And also laptops hdd have Very strong anti-vibration resistance included since a long time.
What I'd do if wanting the USB drive always plugged in is use Disk Management to assign a drive letter way down in the list of those available such as P or Q, etc. Doing so will leave letters available for temporary use of other drives such as the USB Thumb drive. Used to be when Mapping NAS/Network Attached Storage drives Windows would assign Z: to the first, Y: to the second and working back up the alphabet as needed, I did mine that way but Win10 may be doing it differently than previous versions.
I can still see no difference in the result whether I left click first or just right click.
I just changed the drive letter to T to try this. It still showed in the list and when I plugged in a thumb drive the backup drive was still at the top of the Safely Remove list.
I changed it back to E because I see no advantage to having a different letter and Replicator is already set up to back up to E.
MaloK is right. There is no option to eject it in Windows Explorer. I was sure I had seen that before and I do se it when I plug in a USB thumb drive.
I am starting to think there is no solution to this other than to be careful which one I click. At least this drive re-connects with the computer faster than the My Book that it replaced did if I do that.