On Jan 4, 12:31pm, "Colin Wood" wrote:
>> Is it any different than using a regular hard disk? 
>
>Technically, no.  In reality, yes.  Many people seem to have found
>increased stability problems with removable media (i.e. they are more
>susceptible to filesystem corruption).

That has been my experience.  I get so much corruption under even MacOS
that I have turned on verify after write (which slows things down) and
run both Norton *and* MacTools after doing major changes.  For me, it's
unusable under NetBSD.

~Steve

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