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Hot swapping HDDs?

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Are all SATA drives hot swappable?
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I'm fairly confident that all sata II hard drives are hot swappable, but the motherboard might not support it, and depending on the raid/non-raid setup you have, you need to make sure it is supported.
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Here's a previous post from our boards:

http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives...swappable.html

Looks like you have to make sure you're using the sata power cable and not the molex if your drive has both.
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As long as they are running AHCI and not a SATA emulation as XP sometimes did? I think. I know hot swapping is a SATA AHCI function and part of what makes it SATA.
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