[Cialug] Poor man's hot-swappable hard drive

[David Champion]

If you shop around for bargains, you can sometimes find a decent 
external USB or FireWire drive cheaper than if you bought the same drive 
by itself.

-dc

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> IDE like that wasn't ment to be hot-swappable, so you could definitely
> fry something.  You might get lucky and have it work, maybe not.  Your
> OS would also have to know how to rescan for IDE changes, which usually
> only happens with SCSI/FW/USB.  I think they do make hot-swap IDE disk
> carriers, and obviously scsi/firewire work as well.  I would suggest
> just buying an external USB or firewire drive and using that instead.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:16 -0600, Claus wrote:
> 
>>Is it possible to have the power cable and IDE cable hang out of the 
>>computer case and plug in a HD as needed while the computer is running?
>>
>>I'm mostly concerned if hardware could be damaged or data be corrupted.
>>
>>Basically this would be to backup data onto a hard drive that is then 
>>stored somewhere else.  The HD would be mounted to a *BDS system as 
>>needed without having to reboot that system.
>>
>>   Claus