Yeah, SSD is completely negated when the file system has to wait for an external drive to spin up before it will be responsive, even if you're only using the lo

Yeah, SSD is completely negated when the file system has to wait for an external drive to spin up before it will be responsive, even if you're only using the local drive. Because there's no setting for automounting and unmounting a Time Machine drive, I ended up using my old Macbook Pro as a file server and plugging in the external to that, then using a hack to get Time Machine to recognize it as a Time Capsule. sigh