Todd Walton wrote: > They don't necessarily have to be *hot* swappable. They make chassis > that go in the 5.25" bay. You put your hard drive into a frame, and > the frame slides into and out of the chassis. The setup is very > cheap.
As far as I am concerned they have to be hot swappable. How am I going to impress chicks with my big uptime if I have to shut down just to make a backup? > The upsides are that internal disks are cheaper. Newegg lists 80GB > internal disks for $50 and up, and external 80GB disks for $80 and up. As far as I am concerned a one-time $30 difference is nothing when it comes to ensuring that backups actually get done. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
