[SOLVED] Solved: Hot swap bays

[Dave8671]

I am looking for one of these bays. Mainly to change out drives primay linux OS to the testing drive . Though does the motherboard have to support hotswap? Though technically will not be changing drives with the system on just want easy access to change drives.

 

[ss202sl]

You're not hot swapping if the power is off. No different then replacing the drive with the power off.

 

[Eximo]

Most boards support turning sata ports into removeable drives/devices in the BIOS. You then only need to 'safely disconnect' like any other drive.

 

[RealBeast]

I am looking for one of these bays. Mainly to change out drives primay linux OS to the testing drive . Though does the motherboard have to support hotswap? Though technically will not be changing drives with the system on just want easy access to change drives.

Agreed, you are not hot swapping so for sure yes. If you do want to actually hot swap you will need to enable that for each specific SATA port in the bios, as they are each individually controlled and in the disable default on most boards.

I do it all the time and never shtudown, too time consuming for impatient me.

 

[thx1138v2]

The "hot swap" technology is built into SATA drives and cables. It works by connecting the ground pins first and then the power and data pins. You can see it if you look closely at the connectors. The ground connections are a bit longer than the others so they make contact first.

It doesn't have anything to do with the motherboard.

 

[Dave8671]

I will have to look in the BIOS this mobo is a second gen Intel. Not sure if it has hot swap.

 

[Dave8671]

I want easy access to change the drives. The case has them mounted vertical on a flat metal wide bar.

 

[hang-the-9]

I want easy access to change the drives. The case has them mounted vertical on a flat metal wide bar.

They do made external drive bays, I used to use them a lot when I was building system images for work. You just need a case with a 5.25 external bay.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=removable+hard+drive+tray

 

[Dave8671]

This Motherboard does not have a hot-swap option in the bios which does not matter since it will be turned off for each hdd change.