SATA Drives

cellophanecore

I am having a hard time finding information on SATA technology, if anyone knows any sites let me know. I have 2 SATA drives using onboard RAID 1. I heard they are hotswapable as long as they are using the SATA power connectors. Anyone know if this is true?

Webmaster

Perhaps you can find the information you need at the pages linked to at the bottom of :
www.techexams.net/technotes/apluscore/ide.shtml

cellophanecore

thanks but it did not address what i was looking for but i did find good links from there. Its been rather hard to get information on SATA so if anyone has any good links please let me know.

RussS

SATA drives are hot swappable if you have hot swappable drive bays. The drive bay has a resistor that keeps the power flowing on the data return and that stops your system from spitting the dummy when a drive is removed. The way it works is much like a SCSI system.