On 9/30/2011 8:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Hakan Koseogluhakan@koseoglu.org wrote:
Why would you move disks around machines unless you're recovering them after a failure?
Because I can. Why wouldn't you? Mine are nearly all in swappable carriers and it is a lot faster to move them than to ship data any other way.
Because you are wearing the machine's connectors out. They are rated to be *infrequently* changed out. When you do it on a regular basis it will just be a matter of time until they develop electrical/physical problems.
If you want to use drives to ship data around plug in a USB hub and connect USB drives to it. That way when the connectors inevitably wear out all you need to replace is the hub (and/or the drives).