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05-12-2003, 11:03 PM
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Swappable Hard Drives in XP?
I am ordering one of those drive bays that allows you to "hot swap" your hard drives. I need this for audio recording to keep clients separate. Obviously I will still have one permanent hard drive.
I have 98se right now but I read on one of the product descriptions for the hot swap bay that it's not compatible on XP. Then I found an article which made me thing that it was, at least on XP Pro. Is this possible on Windows XP? Thanks, Jeremy |
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05-13-2003, 04:41 AM
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yes all removable hdd bays work on xp but you must switch the computer off to remove the drive and fit the new one each time
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05-13-2003, 09:36 AM
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05-13-2003, 09:38 AM
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Thanks for the reply. I guess there is still a benefit from it. The bays are only 13.95 on ebay, and smaller hard drives are pretty affordable also. I wish there was a way to do it while its on though.
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05-13-2003, 12:28 PM
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a better option may be to get a pci EIDE controler card then you can fit 4 hdd on the card and partition each drive in to 3 to give you 12 drives
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05-13-2003, 01:49 PM
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I think true hot swappable drive are SCSI...
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05-14-2003, 02:28 AM
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SCSI will do it.
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