whats hot swapping (sata)

borzborz Brisbane ,Qld
edited February 2006 in Hardware
hi . silly question but whats does hot swapping sata actually mean ?

thanks

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    With the proper hardware (not just any old SATA controller or drive will do), you are able to replace hard drives without shutting the system down and powering the computer off. It is mostly useful for servers where you need to replace a failing drive with zero downtime. :)
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited February 2006
    if you happen to have a nForce4 motherboard and install the SW IDE driver, all sata drives will show up as removeable devices, like a pen drive, because they are hot swappable.
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