[muglo] Re: Patchburn and LG GSA 4163B w Firewire Case

> > And thanks, Eric and Tee, re that I should get a Firewire case for
> > the LG GSA 4163B internal.  Cutting Edge said they will do trade-ins,
> > but 20% will be taken off.

> > Do you think I should just go for the slightly more expensive LG GSA
> > 5163D external?  And would I need Patchburn just to do data burns with
> > this model?

My personal inclination is to go with the slightly more expensive
5163D. You already know that it works with Macs and, for the cost
savings of $10 or $20, I don't think it's worth mixing-and-matching
(of course, that is only my personal opinion) (if the savings were a
larger % of the price I'd say do it).

> The advantage of the Firewire/USB case is that it is "Hot Swapable",
> which in simpler terms means that you can swap the internal drives; ie:
> drop min a large hard drive; as well as unplug the case when the
> computer is running; just drop the drive in the Trash & turn it back
> on, or plug it in again and it will show up on the desktop. HTH.

Just to clarify this statement: ALL USB and FireWire devices are "hot
swapable". You can safely (for the hardware) connect and disconnect
the devices. However, you should ALWAYS unmount a drive before
disconnecting it (for the sake of the data integrity).

PS Tee: there are only a few drive cases that allow hot swapping of
the IDE device itself (i.e. where you can switch the actual IDE
device, and not just the FireWire/USB connection... swap one 80 GB
drive for a 100 GB drive "on the fly" in the hard drive case).

Eric.
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