I keep a USB hard drive full of videos and other media connected to my macbook at all times. When the time comes to move the machine to another location, I obviously have to properly eject the drive; to do so I need to open a finder window, click the eject button on the drive, wait for it to eject etc...
I'm just wondering if there's a quicker way to do this, like an 'eject' icon that sits in the taskbar, or even a process that runs in the background and lets me use the CD eject key on the keyboard to eject all discs and drives?? (as I don't often use CDs or DVDs anyway.....)
I realise this is a bit of a big ask to avoid a reasonably simple procedure, but I'm lazy like that; plus i like the idea of using technology to make my life all the lazier.

I'm just wondering if there's a quicker way to do this, like an 'eject' icon that sits in the taskbar, or even a process that runs in the background and lets me use the CD eject key on the keyboard to eject all discs and drives?? (as I don't often use CDs or DVDs anyway.....)
I realise this is a bit of a big ask to avoid a reasonably simple procedure, but I'm lazy like that; plus i like the idea of using technology to make my life all the lazier.