SATA II = hot pluggable...?

Vimes · 21 Oct 2007 at 15:30

Hello

I have got a Samsung 500GB SATA II drives connected to my Gigabyte P35 motherboard. Vista is booting using a Maxtor SATA drive, the drives were installed using ACHI. The drives do not use a molex connector.

Am I right in thinking that the Samsung drive should be hot pluggable and so could be unplugged whilst Vista is running, provided that I have disabled write caching on the drive, if that is needed..?

Gigabyte have written this....

Hot Plug support allows users to insert and remove hard disk drives without shutting off power to the system.

So has anyone tried this...?

eddie101 · 21 Oct 2007 at 15:45

Yep, it works

helmutcheese · 21 Oct 2007 at 16:15

Your HDD is SATA300, SATAII is a set of functions and a SATA150 Drive can have SATAII functions.

Vimes · 21 Oct 2007 at 16:25

eddie101 said:
Yep, it works

Thanks I will now give it a go

Your HDD is SATA300, SATAII is a function and a SATA150 Drive can have SATAII functions.

I am sure that makes sense, just not to me :confused:

helmutcheese · 21 Oct 2007 at 17:36

Google or Wiki it then.

SATA300 and SATAII are not the same thing.

Your drive is both so forget it

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sosrandom · 21 Oct 2007 at 17:54

yeah, ive had mine appear on the add and remove before, when ive been playing with the settings, just like flash drives

helmutcheese · 21 Oct 2007 at 18:42

A SATA HDD wont perform at full speed if it is set same as a USB stick with "Optimise For Quick Removal", it auto sets to "Optimise For Performance" so you would need use the "Safely Remove Hardware " option.