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SATA = Hot pluggable?
Name: punistation Date: November 2, 2008 at 01:00:51 Pacific OS: Vista CPU/Ram: e6850
Comment:
I know SATA hard drives are hot pluggable, but does that include the power cable?
Drive-to-MOBO, fair enough... but Drive-to-PSU? Can I pop that in and out?
Name: aegis Date: November 2, 2008 at 08:45:21 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, both cables are hot pluggable. But my advice is to not 'overdue it', due to possibility of physical damage to the connectors.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dark666 Date: November 2, 2008 at 13:13:17 Pacific
Reply:
I agree with aegis. I friend of mine was constantly hot swaping sata disks and now he has a PSU with 2 broken SATA Power Connectors, and 1 HDD with broken Power on the PCB.
Once upon a time the floppy disk was king.
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Response Number 3
Name: UpAndComing Date: November 5, 2008 at 09:44:05 Pacific
Reply:
yeah here's another vote for "it works, but it's dangerous."
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