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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