Which current WD internal SATA drives support hot swapping?

Hello,

I have been using WD SATA drives, including WD Raptor/RE/Black/Blue, in my IT department for  years but I’ve never used as hot swapping.  There is no information about hot swapping feature at the WDC products pages.

So what I’d like to know is which current WD internal SATA drives support hot swapping?  Suppose that all related hardware (Raid/HDD controller, drive bay, etc) are ready for hot swapping. 

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi, see if the link below helps.

Hot-swap or hot-plug WD SATA drives

Thank you Ichigo for your help.

By reading the KB, my conclusion is following:

  1. All SATA drives which confirm to the Serial ATA 1.0 specification are hot-swapping enabled dirves. No matter what they are RE, Black, RED or Green.

  2. The drive receptacles must have some pins to support hot-swapping.

  3. The SATA controller (with safe-remove software) must be ready.

Is my understanding correct?

Hi again Pinyo, 

Yes, that sounds about right.

You should look for the motherboard controler and not the drives :slight_smile: