sata hdd caddies

red777red777
edited August 2004 in Hardware
hi ppl
can you get these?
if so im right in saying that sata you can hot swap ,if i got 1 could i use it internally (sorry forgot to mention i wanted internal) i could transfer my data to hdd and remove once full.
also if you can get any preferance had a look about but cant see any here in uk ,
thanx for your time

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  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    http://www.startech.com/where_to_buy/

    Startech lists a couple of European resellers and they do make the removable SATA caddies. They do not however make mention of it being hot swap.
  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited August 2004
    They used to be really common, those swappable hard disk caddies, I'm still using three on a machine I use for checking out Linux distros and Win98 for old games.

    I haven't seen them about lately though, and I've never seen a SATA caddy, but that link above looks promising.

    As for hot swapping SATA drives, I think that can only be used where the HDD's hold data, not OS's. I mean, can you imagine pulling out a disk running Win XP then slamming in another one with Slackware 10 on it? It just wouldn't work, would it? ;)
  • red777red777
    edited August 2004
    thanx for the reply and link web abit slow at my end pc dl at full so will get on there later thanx
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