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I have a Hot Swap SATA/SAS Backplane (SATSASBAY3BK) which says it is a hot swap compatible. The manual and it says do NOT turn off the drive when the PC is on, so how can that be hot swap compatible? I have used a program called "hot swap" to disable/power down the drive and then turn it off but i encountered errors with that drive so i am sceptilbe about hot swapping/turning off a drive when powered on (i got a error message in Hard Disk Sentential saying something like "there were 200 communication errors when connecting to this device). I have AHCI enabled and if it makes any difference the disk in question is an encrypted
Basically i want the option to "disconnect device" like when you connect a flash drive or external hard drive. How can i safely turn off the drive without powering down, what program to use or physical methods to ensure no damage is done to my drive since there is a lot of important info on there (of course i backup). Should i tweak the drives setting in windows like under the "policies" tab? Thanks
Basically i want the option to "disconnect device" like when you connect a flash drive or external hard drive. How can i safely turn off the drive without powering down, what program to use or physical methods to ensure no damage is done to my drive since there is a lot of important info on there (of course i backup). Should i tweak the drives setting in windows like under the "policies" tab? Thanks
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