eSATA question

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 10:39 +0100, WipeOut wrote:
> I see lots of new PC's with eSATA connectors but I can't seem to find 
> much detail on it.. I know its an external SATA port and so has the 
> speed of SATA but what I can't seem to find out, and maybe someone can 
> help me here, is whether or not its hot plug like USB..
> 
> I am looking for an easy way to backup quite a lot of data regularly to 
> an external hard drive.. If eSATA is hot pluggable then its will be 
> great to have the speed to do the backups quickly.. If its not then I 
> guess I am stuck with USB..

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA>, it suggests hot plugging is
possible with eSATA and SATA, but *YOUR* hardware has to support the
feature.

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