How to disconnect drive from airport extreme

Hi,
I have a gen5 airport extreme and have a number of hard disks connected to it.
What is the best /safe way to disconnect the drives so I can unplug them when I want to.
Thanks in advance
Richard

Bob,
So just like unmounting an external disk mounted to my MAC.
Unfortunately there are a couple of other users of the extreme (PC and MAC), so I would have to unmount these as well.
The reason I ask is after searching the web there were some concerns expressed.
In previous version of the extreme there was an option to disconnect all users, it is not there in the latest version, however there is an option to disable file sharing, which was provided as an option as well.
I did ring local Mac store and they did not know.
Based on your approach does this seem reasonable, to be run from my MAC
1, Start Airport extreme utility
2. You can see what wireless clients are connected to it by clicking the extreme icon in the utility
3. if none of the other users could be accessing the drives (eg IPOD,IPAD) then proceed to 5
4. Any users that could be accessing the drives then go and close them down
5. Unmount the AIrport Extreme from my MAC as you suggested
6. Unplug disks.
May be disabling file sharing would do he same
I have a a couple of disks hanging off, so would be good to be able to unmount just one device from Airport, seems like a good enhancement for that utility, I reckon.
Thanks for help
Rich

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