segate 320 gig showing as removable ?

[Subsider]

installed/added a segate 320 gig drive in my system cofigured it in disk management functions perfect shows in my computer and device manager correct but theres a icon in the taskbar next to the clock thas say safley remove ? like its a usb drive or some thing .. anybody seen this before?

[BB_One]

Sata Drive me friend - Sata and for that matter PCI-E products are in theory plug and play devices allowing for HOT SWAP/Plug ( removing and inserting ) when the power is on.

Sadly not all manufacturers have implemented/installed the required components in order to do the hot swap/plug with hard drives or gfx cards. Some did some did not - as such check carefully with Hard drive spec to see if it supports hot swap. But showing up as a hot swap removable drive normal....

[BB_One]

http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/marketing/Seagate_SATA_Interface.pdf

Check the Sata column !!!


KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
• Native Command Queuing for higher performance in transactional workloads
and hyper-threaded environments
• New latching cables and connectors for ease of integration
• Hot plug for quick maintenance and improved system availability

[Subsider]

thanks BB ! I learn something new every day !
this drive is fast ! should be really fast when i get a second drive and put the in raid o

[BB_One]

Indeed only excellent comments I hear about those 7200.10 ( in Raid they apparently beat the raptors !!)

For sure on my list of things to buy down the road and darn cheap up here $120.00 for 320 ...how the heck can one complain.

[RyderOCZ]

All my Raid0 arrays on the NF4 boards show as removable as well....not that the array is removable...each drive is listed separately under the remove icon....so yes....very normal :)


EDIT: Whoops...where did those 3 posts come from?? When I clicked the thread...I only saw the OP and BB's 1st reply....looks like I am late to the ball game :o