Multiple External Drives

[EBreakingWave]

Hi all
This is my first post here, forgive me if it's posted in the wrong area.

I have a few external drives for my Macbook Pro. One of the drives is an Iomega MaxMini with USB ports on the back to add drives.

My question is; when I hook up the drives to my laptop I get about 4 drive icons on the desktop for each of the partitions, and when I need to remove them I have to eject them or move them to the trash icon.
Is there a way I can put the drives in a folder of some kind that I can just eject and make the desktop look less cluttered?

Thanks in advance!

-EBW

 

[FourCandles]

Finder>Preferences>General

Uncheck "External Disks" under "Show these items on the desktop"

You can then open any Finder window and click the Eject symbol next to the drive.

 

[EBreakingWave]

Magical. Thanks chief