Art Clemons wrote:
> For drives in situations designed for hot swapping ala firewire and USB, the
> risk is a lot less, in fact if you want to swap drives, one of those two
> choices is a much better choice, just remember to unmount the drives before
> removing them, the OS works a lot better not looking for a now non-existent
> drive.

Note that there are converters available, which provide kind of an
overhead for IDE, so you can connect your IDE disk via USB, thus making
its removal safer.

~Mik

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