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Build Your Own SATA Hard Drive Switch

Posted by timothy on from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

Mikey Win writes "ExtremeTech shows us a cool hardware hack that allows multiple operating system to boot without dealing with any tedious BIOS setup changes. How? By building your own SATA hard drive switch. The result? You can expect a longer hard drive life span, power supply load reduction, and partitions protected from becoming overwritten or corrupted."

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  1. How is this a SATA switch? by james_shoemaker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just a drive power switch. I was expecting the actual SATA connection to be switched not just the power to the various drives.

  2. Grub by jgtg32a · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do people really think that Grub is that hard or this just another case of because we can.