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Are SSD'S hot-swapable?

Lightling
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I wanna build my PC soon but idk if I can hot-sawp the SSD so it get's unpluged from data and power, is that possible without daming tthe SSD?


Thanks for the help

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As long as you unmount your drive properly, and enabled hot swapping for that connection yes. Otherwise no.

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2 minutes ago, Lightling said:

I wanna build my PC soon but idk if I can hot-sawp the SSD so it get's unpluged from data and power, is that possible without daming tthe SSD?

Do you mean 'hotswap' as in how USB is 'hotswap'? Just be able to unplug it while it's running?
That's not recommended, but I think in theory SATA is hotswap compatible.

 

The reason I say it's not recommended, is because with USB you can of course do that whole "safe unplug" thing, which you usually can't do with SATA devices. So I can't recommend doing that to an SSD.

 

Or do you mean hotswap in another way?

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Yeah, otherwise the system will boot off the SSD which I don't want since theres nothing on it. I want it to Boot of the USB.

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Using the boot menu key in the BIOS will net better results.

That or changing the boot order in the BIOS.

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I can just change the boot order in the BIOS? I thought I needed to unplug it. Thx for the help :=

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3 minutes ago, Lightling said:

I can just change the boot order in the BIOS? I thought I needed to unplug it. Thx for the help :=

An even easier method would be to use the boot menu at start up. Usually its accessible by pressing F11 and there you can simply select the drive you want to boot from.

This doesn't mess with the boot order, so you don't need to change that back.

 

 

 

 

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I want it to Boot from my USB and then to my SSD, does that work with you solution?

 

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5 minutes ago, Lightling said:

I want it to Boot from my USB and then to my SSD, does that work with you solution?

 

Your motherboard will "figure it out".  It'll see that the SSD is blank and then try booting from anything else it can so it'll hit the USB drive and boot the Windows installer (which is my guess what you're doing).  If it doesn't you can set the USB drive to be the first boot device.

 

After Windows installs you just remove the USB drive and the SSD will automagically be detected as the boot device.

 

Motherboards nowadays always try to boot *something* so they're a lot better about not needing to manually mess with boot order very much.

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1 minute ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Your motherboard will "figure it out".  It'll see that the SSD is blank and then try booting from anything else it can so it'll hit the USB drive and boot the Windows installer (which is my guess what you're doing).  If it doesn't you can set the USB drive to be the first boot device.

 

After Windows installs you just remove the USB drive and the SSD will automagically be detected as the boot device.

Do I need to remove the USB while it's installing? or when it's done? and yes I meant booting from the USB to install windows onto your SSD

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4 minutes ago, Lightling said:

Do I need to remove the USB while it's installing? or when it's done? and yes I meant booting from the USB to install windows onto your SSD

I've left the USB in and it has been fine installing and rebooting itself and getting to the desktop, but you can just pull it after it goes into the first reboot.

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1 minute ago, AnonymousGuy said:

I've left the USB in and it has been fine installing and rebooting itself and getting to the desktop, but you can just pull it after it goes into the first reboot.

K thx for the help 🙂

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19 minutes ago, Lightling said:

K thx for the help 🙂

Is the USB an OS Install disk?  Or is the USB where the OS installed and running from?

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9 hours ago, tkitch said:

Is the USB an OS Install disk?  Or is the USB where the OS installed and running from?

The USB is where the OS is gonna boot from, yes

 

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