Hiding drive/volume icons from desktop

I prefer to have a clean desktop with no icons but ubuntu seems to like putting volume/drive icons on the desktop when they are mounted. If you want to hide the icons.
type in the terminal

gconf-editor

Now navigate to apps/nautilus/desktop. Over here un-check the volumes_visible option. There you go, its done :)

Note: you can always access your drives from places/computer :)