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Can I swap SATA hard drives with power on, or will it cause damage to any component? I haven't tried it yet as a precaution.
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I'm looking for a way to go through an absolute boat load of HDD's quickly, without having to open my PC and swap out drives. They are all 3.5" SATA drives that have data on that i may or may not ...
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I have a SATA disk I want to use into an ICYDOCK bay (hotswap capable and hotswap enabled into the BIOS) that has a power button for the disk. When I want to insert the disk on a running windows 10 : ...
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I just made my USB an additional swap and after all done I did not know how could I take the USB off my computer properly, so I just pulled it off. When I open htop the swap space that the USB ...
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I am currently running (successfully for the past 3 weeks) a dualboot system with : Windows 10 Pro 1909 for professionnal reasons and gaming [480GB SSD on Sata port 3] Arch Linux latest release for ...
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I have 6 SATA disks. I need to put one on/off switch for each disk. When I don't use the disk, I want to turn it off instead of each time removing the SATA power cable. So my question is, The on/off ...
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I have a CentOS 7 server with hot-swap disks. However, if I take out a disk (which is not mounted, and not part of an md RAID, or an LVM) off the server - lsblk still shows it. What actions (short of ...
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If I have write caching disabled on my internal hard drive, is it safe to disconnect SATA power without ejecting (using a program such as Hotswap!)? Thanks!
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I'm wondering if there is any harm (e.g risk of data loss) in changing the device in my optical bay (e.g. from optical drive to HDD), while my operating system (BSD, Linux or Windows) is running? I ...
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Hardware I have a laptop with a 1tb hdd, a 256gb ssd, and an NVIDIA GTX 1050 gpu. My Question is there a setup that would allow for: Linux and a windows to run simultaneously, through KVM or the ...
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Overview Over the course of a few months I purchased two of the same SSD from different stores (both 960GB SandDisk SSD PLUS, same firmware(Z33110RL) - just waited for them to be on sale) with the ...
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Inserting a SATA drive into a “hot swap” tray causes a momentary problem that leads the Intel RST RAID 10 array to begin rebuilding. The first message from Intel begins like this: SATA array disk: ...
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I'm running heavily leaking apps on server which have already swapped out about 60gb of garbage in their over 100 days uptime. At the point when I've run out of swap for the first time (32gb) I ...
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Certain computer ports (such as PS/2, serial, parallel, VGA) are not hot swappable and there is a risk (maybe a low risk, but still a risk nonetheless) of damage if you disconnect a device from one of ...
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TL;DR: For some reason hot plugging my Thunderbolt dock is not working correctly on my new laptop. I am trying to determine if I've overlooked a troubleshooting step. Problem: If the dock is ...
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