SATA - Hotswappable?

[Noozer]

Just wondering how "hot swappable" SATA drives really are.

If I have a RAID 5 array and one drive fails, can I simply pull the data and
power cables off the dead drive and plug them into a good drive without
powering off the PC at all?

 

[yak]

Just wondering how "hot swappable" SATA drives really are.

If I have a RAID 5 array and one drive fails, can I simply pull the data and
power cables off the dead drive and plug them into a good drive without
powering off the PC at all?

If hotswapping was something you really needed, you would have bought
scsi drives that could handle it. Why would you want to risk a drive and
the pc for 30 seconds of off time?

 

[Noozer]

If hotswapping was something you really needed, you would have bought
scsi drives that could handle it. Why would you want to risk a drive and
the pc for 30 seconds of off time?

SCSI is overpriced. The drives are almost identical to IDE except for the
controller hardware, which is made of the same kind of components and
materials. A SCSI drive could be built for the same price as IDE drives if
the quantities were the same and licensing wasn't involved.

....Now, SATA was designed from the start to be hot swappable. I just want to
know if there are any special requirements, etc. to use them as hot
swappable.

 

[Dragon]

I have heard that SATA is hotswappable too.
But I don't know whehther is the one selling in the market.