Q quicksand macrumors newbie Original poster Mar 20, 2005 6 0 London Jun 22, 2008 #1 Does anyone know if the internal SATA drives on the MacPros are hot swappable?
Tallest Skil macrumors P6 Aug 13, 2006 16,044 4 1 Geostationary Tower Plaza Jun 22, 2008 #2 They're not. Don't try. The XServe drives are hot-swappable.
sickmacdoc macrumors 68020 Jun 14, 2008 2,035 1 New Hampshire Jun 22, 2008 #3 quicksand said: Does anyone know if the internal SATA drives on the MacPros are hot swappable? Click to expand... Like Tallest Skil said, nope they are not. I wanted to add that if you use one of the port extender kits to route the two extra SATA ports out to the back as eSATA ports, those are not hot swappable either. You'll need a PCIe SATA card for hot swappng.
quicksand said: Does anyone know if the internal SATA drives on the MacPros are hot swappable? Click to expand... Like Tallest Skil said, nope they are not. I wanted to add that if you use one of the port extender kits to route the two extra SATA ports out to the back as eSATA ports, those are not hot swappable either. You'll need a PCIe SATA card for hot swappng.