On Monday 24 Mar 2003 10:09 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Monday 24 de March 2003 03:11, eric huff wrote: > > Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those > > little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen > > them listed up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer data > > amongst youselves, but too expensive to give away. The cheapest i saw > > with a 2 second google search was $22, probably 32meg. > > There are also USB "adaptors" for IDE drives. They are like > a case inside of which you put and connect your IDE drive > (a CD burner, any HD...) and it plugs to the PC thru USB > ports. It's a little big, especially if you need to carry it around, > but it's unbeatable in many aspects... hot swapping 120GB IDE > drives is very useful sometimes.. > That sounds interesting. I presume it's not particularly fast? But probably reliability would outweight that. I used to have 'cradles' which would allow interchangeable drives (though not hot-swap), but found that I frequently had unexplained problems when trying to boot to a newly swapped one, so I do not recommend them at all.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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