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Making SATA hot swap

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by jacostanzi

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I have an internal SATA enclosure connected to the mobo (Dell) running XP Pro (64). Is there anyway to make it hot swap. I found nothing on Dell site. Only thing I found was a hot swap utility. Hot swap works when connected to PCI card.

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by hal 9000

They are called SAS Drives and are considerably more expensive than a Simple SATA Drive.

So the easy answer to your question is No You can not but you can add a Controller Card and SAS drives to achieve this result. You'll probably need to change the Drive Bays to support SAS as well.

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