Hot Plug And Hot Swap For Hard Disk Drives - ASROCK IMB-A160-H User Manual

2.10 Hot Plug and Hot Swap for Hard Disk Drives

This motherboard supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap for SATA3 in AHCI /
RAID mode. (Raid is not supported by AMD A50M)
What is Hot Plug and Hot Swap?
If the HDDs are NOT set for RAID, it is called "Hot Plug" for the
action to insert and remove the HDDs while the system is still
powered on and in working condition. If the HDDs are set for RAID
then it is called "Hot Swap". However, please note that it cannot
perform Hot Plug or Hot Swap if the OS has been installed into the
HDD.
Hot Plug / Hot Swap Operation Guide
Please read the operation guide of Hot Plug / Hot Swap below carefully.
Before you process Hot Plug / Hot Swap, please check the cable
accessories from the motherboard gift box pack below.
A. 7-pin SATA data cable
B. SATA power cable with SATA 15-pin power connector interface
A. SATA data cable (Red)
SATA 7-pin The SATA 15-pin power
connector (Black) should be
connector
connected to your SATA3
HDD
B. SATA power cable
The 1x4-pin conventional
power connector (White)
should be connected to a
power supply
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