Note that external sata is now becoming more common. Although I've never tried 
it, I can see no reason why hot plugging a sata disk shouldn't work fine.

Steve

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:45:13 +1300 (NZDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am looking to purchase an external hard drive to keep family videos on 
> (these
> things fill my personal hard drive and I have no backups).
>
> My main system is Ubuntu Linux. These things seem to have UBS2 or Firewire
> interfaces. Is there anything I need to be aware of or look out for when
> purchasing one primarily to use with Linux?
>
> Any experiences?
>
> Regards
>
> Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
> 03 982 6844

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