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Are eSATA drives hot swappable?

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Mar 15, 20269175 views
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I'm going to build a low power home server and I've been thinking about using some external eSATA enclosures so I can have external drives that I can add and remove from the server every now and then for backup purposes. But I've never dealt with a eSATA drive before and I'm wondering how it works …

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Fix for: Are eSATA drives hot swappable?

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Your SATA controller (probably integrated in the motherboard) may or may not support this feature. It's likely if you're dealing with a new motherboard that it does. Basically, older motherboards supported something call IDE emulation rather than us…

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