External USB2.0 HDD disconnect

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> A USB HD chassis should work.  Just remember that you disconnect the USB
> after you umount the drive (if mounted), or making sure the disk is
> sync'd.  The USB boxes are pretty cheap now as far as I know.  The HDD
> removable trays never made any sense to me, and can only be removed
> safely while powered off (or disconnected in the case of USB).

Those driver trays were around for years, before USB.  At one time it 
was the only practical way to change drives in a PC.

Anyone here remember disk pack drives?  ;-)

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