Hot Swapping Drives?

[Caleb10E]

I've been looking at cases that have hard drive cages with SATA ports on a backplate so you can just slide in a drive and be good to go, such as on the Corsair Obsidian 800D or 900D. I don't know if my motherboard would be able to hot-swap drives from those cages so I wouldn't need to restart my system. How could I find out if I can use hot-swapping without having to shut down?

 

An absolute answer would be fine, too. I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3. 2 SATA III ports, 4 SATA II ports, Z68 chipset.....

[SoftwarePro]

Set it up in the bios and it will work just fine!!!!!!

[Caleb10E]

Set it up in the bios and it will work just fine!!!!!!

 

From what I've found, the SATA control mode should be AHCI.

"Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and hot plug."

 

I'm assuming 'hot plug' is talking about hot-swapping?

[IdeaStormer]

Yes, setup hot swap from day one on all your computers if they support it, beats the heck out of needing to reboot to add a drive or remove one, that is so 20th Century :P