Hi
I will be getting a new case for my rather meager FoxPro Gateway computer motherboard. I am getting this out of concern for adequate cooling of my hard drives since I am a video collector. My new case will be "AZZA HURRICAN 2000 CSAZ-2000" will have eight fans and for hot-swappable ports. But even though I have one hot-swappable port installed in my old computer case it is not hot-swappable. I found out about the hot-swap icon a little USB plug with a checkmark next to it and using this icon which now appears in my system tray I can successfully remove a hard drive without powering down, but inserting a hard drive the same way results in the blue screen of death.
So what will it take to successfully hot-swap hard drives both removing them and inserting them without powering down. I was thinking a new motherboard but it technical support person at a Micro Center store said that just any new motherboard wouldn't do it. So what will? An old post back in 2005 answered this question with the statement
"Anything under $50 is SATA1, and does not have hot-swap or NCQ.
SATA2 cards are generally PCI-X, often 64-bit. The n support for
SATA2 features like ' addt the cost. The cheapest cards are
probably have the SiI chips, which you can look up at siliconimage.com."
But it is December 2014 so what is the answer now. If I want to to achieve true hot-swap insurgent and removal of hard drives would some sata hard drive controllers found on even inexpensive new motherboards do it for me? (of course I would have to buy a new microprocessor and RAM as well) or could I get even and inexpensive SATA IDE Controller Card. Or will it take quite some expense looking for the best of expensive new motherboards which might contain a sata controller so good it lets you truly hot-swap SATA hard drives. Would a motherboard like that be so expensive that if I ever want to upgrade to true hot-swap SATA hot-swap ability I should plan on having to buy an additional plug-in peripheral SATA hard drive card because any motherboard that would do this would simply be so expensive that an extra card would be the way to go. What do you think. I would particularly appreciate an answer from a person who does true hot swapping right now, but of course any answer from anybody who really knows would be greatly appreciated.
I will be getting a new case for my rather meager FoxPro Gateway computer motherboard. I am getting this out of concern for adequate cooling of my hard drives since I am a video collector. My new case will be "AZZA HURRICAN 2000 CSAZ-2000" will have eight fans and for hot-swappable ports. But even though I have one hot-swappable port installed in my old computer case it is not hot-swappable. I found out about the hot-swap icon a little USB plug with a checkmark next to it and using this icon which now appears in my system tray I can successfully remove a hard drive without powering down, but inserting a hard drive the same way results in the blue screen of death.
So what will it take to successfully hot-swap hard drives both removing them and inserting them without powering down. I was thinking a new motherboard but it technical support person at a Micro Center store said that just any new motherboard wouldn't do it. So what will? An old post back in 2005 answered this question with the statement
"Anything under $50 is SATA1, and does not have hot-swap or NCQ.
SATA2 cards are generally PCI-X, often 64-bit. The n support for
SATA2 features like ' addt the cost. The cheapest cards are
probably have the SiI chips, which you can look up at siliconimage.com."
But it is December 2014 so what is the answer now. If I want to to achieve true hot-swap insurgent and removal of hard drives would some sata hard drive controllers found on even inexpensive new motherboards do it for me? (of course I would have to buy a new microprocessor and RAM as well) or could I get even and inexpensive SATA IDE Controller Card. Or will it take quite some expense looking for the best of expensive new motherboards which might contain a sata controller so good it lets you truly hot-swap SATA hard drives. Would a motherboard like that be so expensive that if I ever want to upgrade to true hot-swap SATA hot-swap ability I should plan on having to buy an additional plug-in peripheral SATA hard drive card because any motherboard that would do this would simply be so expensive that an extra card would be the way to go. What do you think. I would particularly appreciate an answer from a person who does true hot swapping right now, but of course any answer from anybody who really knows would be greatly appreciated.
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