On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:10 PM, AlunFoto wrote: > 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 It may have been outdated 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. > I turn drives off or unplug them all the time. OSX issues a warning that a device was removed and data may have been damaged. Data is never damaged. Not once in probably 1000 removals. I also plug drives in or turn them on randomly. OSX doesn't seem to care about that and mounts them immediately. Ignorance is bliss:-). Paul > 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.
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