ASRock IMB-110 Series manual Hot Plug for Sata / SATA2 HDDs, Hot Plug and Hot Swap for SATA3 HDDs

2.10 Hot Plug for SATA / SATA2 HDDs

This motherboard supports Hot Plug for SATA / SATA2 in RAID / AHCI mode. Intel® NM10 Express chipset provides hardware support for Advanced Host controller Interface (AHCI), a new programming interface for SATA host controllers developed through a joint industry effort.

NOTE

What is Hot Plug?

If the SATA / SATA2 HDDs are NOT set for RAID, it is called “Hot Plug” for the action to insert and remove the SATA / SATA2 HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition.

However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been installed into the SATA / SATA2 HDD.

2.11 Hot Plug and Hot Swap for SATA3 HDDs

This motherboard supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap for SATA3 in RAID / AHCI mode. Marvell SE9172 chipset provides hardware support for Advanced Host controller Interface (AHCI), a new programming interface for SATA host controllers developed through a joint industry effort.

NOTE

What is Hot Plug?

If the SATA3 HDDs are NOT set for RAID configuration, it is called “Hot Plug” for the action to insert and remove the SATA3 HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition.

However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been installed into the SATA3 HDD.

What is Hot Swap?

If SATA3 HDDs are built as RAID 1 or RAID 5 then it is called “Hot Swap” for the action to insert and remove the SATA3 HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition.

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