I have a lot of USB devices attached to my Mac, all via a sweet little USB hub that’s a trooper and not failed me yet. So the hub goes into my PowerBook and into the hub goes:

Lacie blue brick 300GB external HDD (Speedy but has a fan in it so it’s noisy)
Western Digital 250GB USB HDD (Advertises as a one touch backup, which is not Mac compatible)
Microsoft Optical Trackball (This thing is so damn good if you file the nubs away from inside the socket)
iPod Dock
Canon Inkjet 250i (Super cheap ink cartridges and good enough output)
Epson Scanner (No clue which one anymore)
DVD Writer

When the need aries I unplug one USB port, plug it into my XP computer and all the above jumps into life on XP. Handy.

So what’s attached to your Mac?

If you want to eject everything all at one I suggest the excellent and free Ejector.

Ejector adds an Eject icon to the Mac OS X menu bar.
From it you can eject any disks, e.g. an iPod, a CD, a DVD, an USB Key and even a .dmg or a hard disk (including external one).
You can then safely disconnect them from your mac.

What’s new:
- This version is an universal binary (it work natively on intel based macintosh)

Jeb-Soft: Ejector Via

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