hot-swap bay question

[damienr]

i recently bought a hot-swap bay for easier backups and such.  do i need to disable write caching for hard disks or are there other permission that need to be set when using the hot swap feature of my motherboard.  its an msi x470 gaming M7 AC. using the bay for ssds i haven't had any problems at all but tonight i put in a couple hard drives into it for the first time and my computer would take forever to read the disk and also wouldn't let me eject the disks. thought i had another 8tb seagate barracuda pro (seriously regret buying them for backups) go bad but when i put it in my usb dock it was fine and didn't take forever to access the hard-drive or eject it. thank you in advance 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

The only thing you need to worry about is if the SATA port you connect the hot swap bay to is hot swap enabled. Not all SATA ports are hot swappable. You can check for that and set it in the BIOS.

[damienr]

Thank you 

i do have the port its hooked up to set to hot swap enabled 

 

another question is the hard drive supposed to spin down after you eject it with windows when i put a hard drive in they dont power down completely after ejecting with windows like it does when its hooked up to the usb dock i have?

 

sorry for all the newb questions but there really isnt much info anywhere that doesnt conflict with someone else when looking this stuff up