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Question: What does IDE hot-swapping mean?

Yah, but you need the proper drivers installed or whatever too. So if you have a hotswappable Hard drive bay, don't just randomly unplug it and hope for it to be good.
 
I've heard about people killing their hard drives when they plug or unplug the power connector while the computer is still running. How do you avoid this with a hot swappable bay?
 


<< I've heard about people killing their hard drives when they plug or unplug the power connector while the computer is still running. How do you avoid this with a hot swappable bay? >>



I think the problem is the hard drive is still spining. There is software to tell the drive to turn off and park the heads IIRC.
 
Software DOES NOT tell a HD to park it's heads, not in the last 10 years or so since stepper motor HD's (hardly any made larger than 80Mb)

The heads park automatically because they are voice coil driven which is electro-magnetic. Remove the electricity and the heads automatically return to the parked state.

Unplugging a HD while it's on may damage the electronics, yet I've never damaged one to date, I have unplugged them whilst on hundreds of times (it may fail if it's a WD but thats most likely not because of unplugging it while it's on 🙂)

You cannot plug a drive back in while the system is on however.
 
Probably a better option if you are very interested on HDD hot swapping is Firewire interface HDD. Like USB these drives can be plugged and unplugged as you wish as many times as you want. Just a thought.😎
 
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