I want to install an additional HD for backup. For me that would require turning on this additional drive after bootup. Will this switch do that?
1706930
No. You need to have the switch on during boot. Your computer bios needs to be able to see the drive. Its not like a external usb drive. pick the drive you want to backup to before you boot.
1706931
It most definitely will... be careful not to switch the drive off whilst it's reading/writing, though...
1706932
Apparently it depend upon the HD. External drives may properly respond to "plug and play". With internal drives, I must go to the Device Driver (Control Panel -> Device Manager -> right click on "Disk drives" -> select "Scan for hardware changes". The HD starts every time for me. Note: I returned to MS Vista (from Windows 8). If you are using a different operating system there may be a different series of commands.
1706933
You would push in the button "before" boot up/power on. I use this item for cloning one hd to another, or just booting up from a different drive.
1706934
That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
1706935
Yes it would, that is one of the reasons why I bought this. Two for backup.. I always backup my backup, one for32bit Win7 one64bit win7, One for Linux the other for my CD Rom. you can turn it on after boot up or just leave it on with no problems.
1706936
This switch will turn the power to your hard drives on or off at any time. Whether your data connection supports hot swapping is a different question. Generally, a direct SATA connection to your motherboard is not hot swappable and will require shutting down the computer and restarting. If your drives are connected to a SATA card that supports hot swapping, then you can turn the drives (other than your boot drive of course) on or off at any time.
195814
Yes there is plenty of space for an additional drive. As long as the Solid State Drive is SATA you should be fine.
1914096
You can leave the existing harddrive in it and add drives. Mine is one year older and has spots for 3 msata drives, plus the existing hhd. Rest is upgradeable also (video, wifi/bluetooth). I just upgraded my wifi to AC for $32, my msata 128g crucial drive was $97. This model has 4 ram slots the MSI site says 3 ssd slots.. has killer double shot lan/wifi. Turbo fan with just a button push. I love mine. I converted the new msata to the boot drive and use the existing for storage.
1636092
It does not. I do not know of an auxiliary hard drive that does come with this pre installed. This type of software is normally installed on your " C " drive and is directed by you to protect each drive that you designate.
1120024
I have a "very old" External Hard drive...not this make/model...I turn it on once/quarter to backup recent files...it's probably over 3 years old. Recently, I bought one of these WD Elite 500GB models...my plan is to backup on two externals...in case one fails. I know this seems lame, but it is the only way to ensure everything sticks around. Seems like its worth the extra $100.
1374917
All this switch does is switch the power. Doesn't a SATA III drive use the same type of power connector? The specifics of the drive do not matter to this switch.
1242322
Absolutely. I installed a 2TB drive in mine 6 months ago. Works like a charm.
200504
Sure. But if you are backing-up your OS, you should be doing that to a second physical internal hard drive.
1476796
Yes, that will work just fine. I added drives after I started everything to make the startup price not as bad.
1343731
Not 100% sure what you are asking ... I hooked up my 6 hard drives to the switch one being 8.1 if the drive already has OS installed no reason to activate just hook it to the switch. But if you are loading and If you have a mirror copy then no, but fresh install yes... and you can load 3 windows 7 if you like on different drives as long as you have a different product key for each. One product key one drive.
4807
Should not be a problem. upon powering up, push the raid button to your desired array, then hold the button in the back until it re-boots.
43230
Yes, it does. You can use one 2TB HDD as your main drive and the other as your backup, or you can use both HDDs at the same time for a combined 4TB HDD.
1505685
You can not actually add additional hard drive, but you could replace the original with new one has more capacity.I would suggest to use external hard drive.
27160
OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
1077765
No. You have to replace the drive with a tray that holds the second hard drive.
774391
Great question. I purchased and configured several but never attemped to test without a HD. I honestly don"t know but imagine it would since there is an option to select internal HD or USB HD. However, this is a solid product and is an excellent substitute for a external HD.
375678
Yes you can. As a matter of fact I just did about a week ago due to the fact that 4G does not last long at all so I got another hard drive for it and it was very easy to install. It will take about 1 minute to install another hard drive. Now my son never gets off of it and has enjoyed it. Best birthday gift he has ever gotten.