External drives · When the drive is unplugged
Does Storage Studio keep working while the fast drive is disconnected?
Short answer: Yes. Moves and anything else that needs the drive pause and resume on their own when it's back; clean-ups, What's Using Space, cloud transfers, Bridge, the Junk Yard and Tuhi keep working.
Yes — only the work that needs the drive pauses. While it's away you'll see messages like "Paused: your fast drive isn't connected" for moves, transfers to the drive and Data Parking, and they resume on their own when it's back.
Everything else carries on: cache and temporary-file clean-ups, What's Using Space, cloud accounts and Data Transfers between cloud services, Bridge, the Junk Yard and Tuhi.