[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 14:38:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On a related note, an external SATA->USB adapter is very useful for
>> drive recovery in these kinds of situations. It allows you to quickly
>> try various methods to get it back to life without having to mess around
>> with the internals of your PC.
>
> I would agree, but with one caveat. I would go for eSATA. USB is just
> too slow and you are going to have a limited time to get data off. You
> don't want to waste that precious time you have because your I/O is
> limited by USB.
>

Or you could just get a long enough sata cable so that you can sit the
drive on your desk or something. Regular SATA is perfectly hot
swappable with linux. I have used hot swap sata for at minimum 5 years
on dozens of machines.

John


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