On Wed 07 Nov 2007 13:24:12 NZDT +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: > I just bought one of these nifty hot swappable esata drive bays: > > http://icute.com.tw/english/iSwap201.htm
Looks ideal. > I want to use it for off site backups i.e.: backup to the drive, pop it > out to take off site and replace with another drive. Good scheme. > Can anyone here confirm I'm right in thinking that I'll need to buy > esata drives that are designed for RAID / Enterprise use? NACK. Any SATA drive will work in that swappy caddy. > Anyone else on this list hot-swapping drives? Yes. IDE via USB converter, SATA goes on straight. Neither show a difference to a keyring USB gimmick in handling by Linux. > My brother got inspired and bought one two. He's running XP and as soon > as he tried to hot swap his data drive he lost all data on it. Opps. Well lets put it this way: if you rip the drive off the computer while writing to it and without unmounting it first, you *will* be cursing regardless of whether it's USB or SATA, or Linux or Doze. Hint KDE: right-click on drive icon, select "safely remove". Hint XP: tell him to use Linux ;) > I'm running Kubuntu 7.10. I don't. It works anyway ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
