Greg Freemyer wrote:
I pulled the drives. They appear identical. Definitely the same metal chassis as viewed from the outside.
In particular I looked at the length of the SATA connector pins. As expected some were longer than others. But the arrangement was identical on the Barracuda Pro and the Skyhawk.
I guess everyone knows that the different lengths are used to control the order of pin connections. The longer pins make contact first on insertion and break contact last on removal.
I was not aware, I've never looked into it.
I believe the Skyhawk should be hot-swappable with no problem. That makes sense because the Skyhawk is said to have been engineered to work in a raid array. In part that means the vibration from a drive in the next bay should not have a major impact on the Skyhawk. I expect it to also include hotswap features.
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