Best Way to Protect Data on External Firewire Drives?

I have a number of external firewire drives on my IMac and like many others have experienced data loss due to various things.
What I've just started to do is use certain of these drives, external USB drives too, just for backup, not to work on. I put the video work on there each day and then dump the drive in the Trash, turning it off, so that their files can't be corrupted.
With my other firewire drives I do the same: dump in the trash and turn the drives off. I don't unplug the firewire cables, just dump the drives in the trashcan and turn them off. When I want to use a particular drive I turn it on and it comes up on the desktop.
I have at times restarted and then powered the external drives on.
My question is: which is the safest way to do this? is it okay to trash a drive, turn it off and then switch it back on when needed?
Thanks so much for any help!

I have been doing what you describe for years now, and have never experienced a problem. When the drive is not needed for a while, I eject it and power it off. You can also disconnect it from the Mac and unplug the drive physically, if you want extra "protection" against, say, a power surge or some other malfunction that might damage the powered off (but still connected) drive, but I would think those types of events are very highly unlikely.
People might debate whether the risk of wearing out the firewire or USB ports from repeatedly inserting and removing the cables is greater than the risk of some damage when connected to the Mac but powered off. Either one is infinitesimally small, I believe, and neither has probably been accurately measured.

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