eSATA is absolutely fabulous when it works. My laptop has a good hot-swap support for eSATA. My stationary is a little more quirky, allowing dismounting an remounting if the disk was present at startup, but not otherwise. But that's Windows. I recently read somewhere that OSX does not support eSATA hotswap. It may have been outdated information, but it could be worth the bother to check out before buying.
Jostein 2009/12/26 Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com>: > On 27/12/2009, P N Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >> Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's not an SATA. I'll pick up another enclosure. The >> last one I bought isn't really an enclosure, it's just a dock. It's called >> EZ- Dock, and it's made by a company called Kingwin. The drive plugs into a >> slot and stands up vertically. With no enclosure it seems to run quite cool. >> I think the dock sells for around twenty bucks. > > I use a dock system along side my integrated external drives, the dock > unit connects via USB2, Firewire and eSATA, the latter being my > preference as it makes the drive as fast as the internal unit. I > generally use the dock and drive to make live clones of my system > partitions. The Vantec enclosures/docks are pretty good, if you do go > for an enclosure try to get one that has a dual supply, ie 5v + 12v. > > http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/377 > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
