ASRock IMB-A160-H Hot Plug and Hot Swap for Hard Disk Drives, Hot Plug / Hot Swap Operation Guide

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) B. SATA power cable

SATA 7-pin connector

The SATA 15-pin power connector (Black) should be connected to your SATA3

HDD

The 1x4-pin conventional power connector (White) should be connected to a power supply

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