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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. This is nothing but a crude hack! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, this is a really amateur. They're even switching the ground leads (it would be better NOT to switch them). Here I though it would be an interesting article about how to properly switch SATA data signals and it's a C- grade power switch?

    Big deal. Any idiot who can install a light switch should be able to think this up. Once again, slashdotter's don't know crap about electrical engineering.