hotswap SATA drives

[Dai]

I know eSata can be hotswapped under certain chipsets but this looks like a tool to enable 'safely remove hardware' on any system.

http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm

Caveat - untested here as yet.

[haydnwalker]

SATA Drives are hotswap anyway......We do it all the time at work without so much as a nudge to windows to say were doing it, the drives haven't failed yet

the power cable requires pins 4 and 12 to safely hotswap Sata drives. Not all power cables come with these pins

[Dai]

Originally Posted by haydnwalker

SATA Drives are hotswap anyway......We do it all the time at work without so much as a nudge to windows to say were doing it, the drives haven't failed yet

I never dared to try that yet. This was the bit that caught my eye. Seems to make it quite a safe and easy process.


"It does the same thing as you can remove device from Device Manager but it provides much friendly user interface as you remove the removable device from the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hot-swapped, so you can use SATA/eSATA drive as a removable device much alike USB/IEEE1394 drive."

The drives also need to be in ACHI mode

if you have not got it set this way and you have the lesser power cables you could damage your data/drive

[haydnwalker]

We do run our machines in AHCI mode - so that will be why we've had no issues