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How to connect/remove a hard dirve in runnig system

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 before 1 year one of my friend told me that he can add or remove a hard drive on his running system without any external case and for that he is using some utility. after few days he gave me demo also.
can any one tell me how to do that.

 
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Yes you are right the controller has to support the hot swappable functionality and it has a hot swappable bank or a rack designed to achieve that. Various configurations are available, right from 4 disk rack to 24 or may be more.

The hard disks can be seen after opening a small pane or door on the front of the system, you do not need to open up the system cabinet. Then you can just pull it out as if it is just another pen drive inserted in the USB port. Of course you need to be a little careful.

Here I would mention that all SATA disks are not hot swappable, please ask for hot swappble hard disks only.

Now the latest Firewire external hot swappable hard disks are also available connecting to the Firewire IEEE 1394 port. They support fantastic data transfer rates and fairly inexpensive for the storage space available, good for backup. You may find a solution which gives a GB of storage for a buck or two.
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I can easily remember that was a IDE Hard drive (40 GB Seagate) and system was P4 no RAID no SCSI nothing .

Amazing But i had seen that..........