Has anyone confirmed the ability to hotplug SATA hard drives without any issues related to Windows or data and power problems?
eSATA I believe is confirmed to work as it is the purpose of the external standard, right? But what about hotplugging SATA 1.5, and SATA II (3.0gb) Hard Drives internally? Any experiences out there? I believe it's part of the spec, but am leery to try it until I hear it is as common as breathing. Would love to hear your experiences.
Have you had to shut off write back caching for these drives in order to make the OS know they are removeable?
2007-02-16 23:25:02 · 2 answers · asked by Rational 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
No.... not all of them.
Not unless designed & specified as "hot swappable".
Even then ... they must be installed in a "hot swap" bay or enclosure & on a sstem that has the proper controller to allow this fuction safely.
Just being a STA drive (regardless of which version) does not make it hot swappable.
You can use special "kits" that allow hot swapping of any stardard (non hot swappable) SATA or IDE drive.
http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/sata-hot-swap-internal-drive-kit.htm
regards,
Philip
2007-02-17 00:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not normally. Most hot plugables are SCSI and not SATA.
2007-02-22 13:49:57 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋