Essentially you change a specific part without having to switch it or the whole system off. This enables a business to continue utilising the system without experiencing any kind of downtime.
This may sound like a relatively strange process given that we are all told to power down devices before making changes; but it is highly effective and when the components involved in hot swapping a hard drive in a blade server are the right ones, it often has no ill-effects whatsoever. A blade server is essentially a stripped-down version of a traditionally large server.
The reason that it has been stripped back and scaled down is to maximise performance while minimising the amount of space and energy required. In order to find out whether your hard drive is hot swappable or not you want to start by checking your drive for purple tabs.
These indicate that the drive is in fact hot swappable and it can then be removed without powering down the server. The first is on the drive itself.
Grab your hard drive and check to see if there are any purple tabs on the body. If there are, you can be certain the drive is hot-swappable. The other thing you need to ensure is concerning the storage type of the drive.
If the drive utilizes a RAID setup, it is swappable. And similar to the interface mentioned before, almost all the hard drives you find are on this setting. But just make sure this is indeed the case by reading the label or asking your supplier. Similarly, when buying or installing the system, you can ask the technician or the supplier if the system has hot-swap bays.
If it does not, you can ask them to put only hot-swap ports in so that you can change your drives on the fly. If the hard drive is only cold-pluggable, you need to stop the power supply before changing it. Otherwise, you may damage the drive, your system, and yourself. Hot-swappable drivers are frequently used in systems that need to run all throughout the day.
You will find these systems in factories that use an automated production line or a company that provides continuous online services. Hot-swappable hardware is all the rave right now and for good reasons. But some might still be concerned about the whole thing. If there is any problem with the driver, you will be able to replace it with a new one.
Now, this sort of system usually has multiple drivers. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I have a BIOS that has an option to enable hot-plug on individual ports.
I have a sliding enclosure for HDD and SSD nothing more than a pass-trhu to power and a sata port that allow me to cut power to the drive before physically moving it. But while researching about SATA hotswap, out of expensive enterprise solutions, there is zero reliable information. I tried even looking at patents. So, I do have support in my bios, motherboard and enclosure. The drivers I've never seen mentioning hot-pluggable on the specs, even on the enterprise ones.
How much risk of data loss will i be facing for this convenience? Then, hardware aside, there is the software issue. Do i need support on the OS? SATA-compliant devices thus need no further modification to be hot-pluggable and provide the necessary building blocks for a robust hot-plug solution, which typically includes: Device detection even with power downed receptacles typical of server applications. The Legacy Molex power connection does not support hot-plugging. Does that mean i'm safe and the doc refers to drivers that supports both sata and molex?
Unless the drive dies, there's not much risk of data loss. HDD are really reliable with handling unexpected power lost. SSD are not as reliable regarding unexpected power lost. That said, if there's no activities happening on the drive, hot-plugging is pretty safe. I do this almost everyday. Do I need support on the OS? Nah, the drives doesn't care about the OS. If the OS doesn't support hot-plug, then it means the OS might need to restart to detect the drive, and that it won't send commands to the drives for a more graceful shutdown.
Worst case scenario, the OS crash, but your drive will be OK. Remember, as long as there are no activities on the drive, then it's pretty safe to unplug it.
Is there any AT command to unplug the drive that must be issued or does it park it's head on power down automatically? There are commands to force the drive to park it's heads, but it will also do that when there's no activity on the drive. Can't guarantee that it will park it's head automatically on power down, because we can't guarantee it has enough power to do it.
Oh, here's a caveat. Some OS might delay sending data to the drive, or saving file system information to the drive. This is when you should use the "Safely remove" or "Unmount" features. This only applies for newly written data. Just make sure, as mentioned in point 1 above, that the height of the drive commonly called the z-height is compatible with your drive bay.
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